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firefox does not apear to be remembering home page,and other settings

Asked by ray hughes

when starting firefox it does not remember the home page setting in preferencies,and always defaults to ubuntu google home page
it also does not apear to be remembering other settings as well
did used to work ok ,but after some updates it has changed

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juancarlospaco (juancarlospaco) said : 		#1

Reinstall Firefox, from Add/Remove...

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

Hi,
did you update some addons, it might conflict with 'ubufox' addon, try deactivating this and restart firefox.
To get some output what's wrong start firefox in a terminal:
firefox

Worst case, rename .mozilla folder (hidden in your home directory). Backup your bookmarks before, addons will be gone.
Description:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Linux_and_Unix

M$ habit, reinstallation.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Could it be that you've started firefox with administration privileges once?
If, that wasn't a good idea.
In case to retrieve user permissions for the firefox profile, type in a terminal:
sudo chown your_username -R ~/.mozilla/firefox/
password for ray hughes: ##you wont see anything when you type

##Note: Commands are case sensitive.

Restart firefox and make your desired configuration, restart it again and it should come up with the changes.

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skatehoc19 (skatehoc19-optusnet) said : 		#4

Hi Sam I had the same problem. Your answer solved my problem. Thanks

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