Firefox starts at www.s.com

[ecvej]

Fedora 8 64bit.

Firefox is configured to start with a blank page and yahoo is my home page. I've made no setting changes to firefox, but when I click the firefox icon on the gnome panel, firefox starts and tries to load the site www.s.com furthermore, clicking the icon whilst firefox is running does not cause another instance of firefox to load!

Starting from the terminal with the command "firefox" everything is fine.

The command that the icon launches is "firefox %s" which is presumably what is causing the problem.

I can only think this happened following a yum update, but after googling I couldn't see anyone else with this problem.

Question: What command should the icon run? If I set it to just "firefox" I don't get the nice "starting firefox" message and I rather like that :P

Umm, mine (although I never use it, I prefer Swiftfox) is set to firefox %u

Wayne

[ecvej]

Cheers Wayne, firefox %u gets rid of the www.s.com

The "starting firefox" animation/message is not back though. The computer appears to do nothing for a few secs until firefox loads up. Anyone know how I can get it back? It's useful cos I often wonder if i clicked it properly or not whilst waiting for firefox to load :P

[leadgolem]

I get the same loading thing. Isn't a problem when I'm using AWN though.

[ecvej]

Further info: I set up a new user and started via fox from the gnome panel icon, the "starting firefox web browser" was correctly received. Therefore this appears to be a user specific problem, not a system one.

[glennzo]

I've seen that on a newly installed system more than once. First time I launch FireFox from the panel I get an error stating that FireFox cannot find the page s.com or some such nonsense. Edit the launcher and make it right. It's no big deal.

[ecvej]

Hi glennzo, that solution was noted in the first post . It's how to get the "starting firefox ..." message that is needed? Any ideas on that?

[glennzo]

Originally Posted by ecvej

Hi glennzo, that solution was noted in the first post . It's how to get the "starting firefox ..." message that is needed? Any ideas on that?

Oops! Sorry folks

[Seve]

Originally Posted by ecvej

Hi glennzo, that solution was noted in the first post . It's how to get the "starting firefox ..." message that is needed? Any ideas on that?

Hello:
Which version of firefox are you using and did you use yum to install it ?

Seve

[ecvej]

Firefox was selected for installation when I installed Fedora 8 ("firefox starting ..." message worked). Its been updated by "yum update" a few times to the latest version available 2.0.0.10. At some point the starting message stopped working, can't be certain it is because of yum or if it just stopped on its own.

I've seen this same thing happen in F7

[mbratch]

Any time I've installed/used Firefox it has not had a splash screen on start-up, unless it's telling me something about being run the first time for setup or something.

I did a google search and looks like splash screens are a custom add-on (?).

[ecvej]

Originally Posted by mbratch

Any time I've installed/used Firefox it has not had a splash screen on start-up, unless it's telling me something about being run the first time for setup or something.

I did a google search and looks like splash screens are a custom add-on (?).

I think it's a gnome thing but not certain. The same type of message appears when starting other programmes in gnome like evolution.

Below is a screenshot so you can see what I mean, it's more a flash message than a flash screen. I guess it's not important but firefox takes a few secs to load so it's nice to know that it is doing something rather than me wondering if I clicked it properly or not.

http://ecvej.com/Screenshot.png

[mbratch]

Right, I do get that. It says "starting...." on the task bar. So you're saying you don't even see that?

[ecvej]

To fix I deleted my firefox icon on the gnome panel and the firefox related launchers in ~/.local/share/applications/

I then made a new launcher containing the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Firefox Web Browser
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Browse the Web
Exec=firefox %u
Icon=firefox.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=Firefox-bin
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.13
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Name[en_GB]=Firefox Web Browser
Comment[en_GB]=Browse the Web
Icon[en_GB]=firefox
GenericName[en_GB]=Web Browser

Copied the launcher to the gnome panel and it's all working