about:config tweaks
Hi! My name is Artur and I'm providing a Firefox 3.6.3 solution on thin clients. This solution displays a webpage automatically. Some thing as a "attendance service manager". I'm running Firefox on a Debian Squeeze OS. Question: Concerning about "about:config" and "prefs.js" (last one, mainly) tweaks, I would like to know if there's a solution to allow opening a Firefox session on full screen and to disable about:sessionrestore window. Problem: Several equipments have opened several tabs before (re)initializing. By the way, any prefs.js tweaks will help a lot!
Sorry by my english skills. They're not so accurate.
Artur
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Why are you deploying Firefox 3.6.3? Why not use something faster and secure, like at least Firefox ESR, or Firefox 13? 3.6.3 is ancient and horribly insecure.
I agree, Tylerdowner, but I have no authority about upgrading FF version on it. It's an iso that we burn and install it on thin clients. In other words, it's a ready-to-use solution. Unfortunately I need to use this version.
Firefox 4+ versions have the ability to open a Firefox session in full screen mode, the 3.6 and earlier versions didn't have that option.
You can use a mozilla.cfg file in the Firefox program folder to lock prefs or specify new (default) values.
Place a file local-settings.js in the defaults\pref folder where you also find the file channel-prefs.js to specify using mozilla.cfg.
pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); // use this to disable the byte-shift
See:
You can use these functions in mozilla.cfg:
defaultPref(); // set new default value pref(); // set pref, but allow changes in current session lockPref(); // lock pref, disallow changes
arturvsantos, just so you know the last security update for Firefox 3.6 was 3.6.28 as 3.6.3 is rather behind there even.