[7913] in testers
Re: firefox homepage is not web.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Mar 12 02:37:17 2009
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:36:16 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@mit.edu>
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Hi Ken -
Thanks as always for the report. The Firefox extension should be
setting the homepage to web.mit.edu. We were vaguely aware that it
wasn't working, but it's always nice to have a reminder.
I've opened Trac ticket #143 (http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/143)
to track the issue.
- Evan
Ken T Takusagawa wrote:
> In previous versions of Athena, the default home page was
> web.mit.edu. When starting up firefox for the first time
> (after rm -fr ~/.mozilla), I get start.ubuntu.com/8.10
>
> I do notice that Athena Customizations 1.1 is one of the
> Extensions installed by default: perhaps setting the home
> page should be one of the actions of the extension?
>
> --ken
>
