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firefox starts with index of home folder

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I have the same problem as detailed here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937720. However, the solution does not work for me. I have tried changing the start command to the following: firefox /usr/bin/firefox firefox %u firefox %u $HOME

All of these open firefox with just the file:///home/shawn/ instead of my home folders. If it makes a difference, I just installed this OS (opensuse linux), and copied the mozilla directory over. I also have 3 pages for my homepage.

Thanks in advance for the help!

I have the same problem as detailed here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937720. However, the solution does not work for me. I have tried changing the start command to the following: firefox /usr/bin/firefox firefox %u firefox %u $HOME All of these open firefox with just the file:///home/shawn/ instead of my home folders. If it makes a difference, I just installed this OS (opensuse linux), and copied the mozilla directory over. I also have 3 pages for my homepage. Thanks in advance for the help!

Réiteach roghnaithe

Well, I restarted -- again -- and now it is working fine. So, who the heck knows. Anyway, thanks.

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Did you check the homepage setting in Firefox? You can check this pref on the about:config page:

  • browser.startup.homepage

Can you start Firefox with a specific page (URL) if you append the URL (firefox https://example.com) ?

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If I plug that command into the menu editor (for application launching), then it does not work. It is the same behavior as before.

However, and I forgot to mention this, I can do this in the terminal and it starts correctly (both with the appended URL and without).

ALSO: I tried starting in safe mode, and firefox started correctly. However, after that I started with all addons disabled, and it still did not start correctly. I then disabled hardware acceleration in the preferences, and that did not affect anything either.

Athraithe ag ShawnsterP ar

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I also did a firefox refresh and that did not help. Sorry, I just keep forgetting everything that I have tried lol.

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Also, I just realized I did not answer your first question. In about:config, it looks like it should (as I said, I have three websites set, and it is showing them with the pipes in between.)

Having said that, I currently have firefox set to restore previous session while I am trying to figure this out, and it is still doing it. So, I don't think it is the homepages...

But... there are three things underneath this that showed up: browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID;20190516215225 browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone;67.0 services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.startup.homepage;true

No idea what this stuff means or if it is relevant.

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Réiteach Roghnaithe

Well, I restarted -- again -- and now it is working fine. So, who the heck knows. Anyway, thanks.

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If it happens again then try to disable "Restore Previous Session" to see if that has effect.

browser.startup.homepage and browser.startup.page should set what happens if you start Firefox.

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Okay, I guess I am not out of the woodworks yet. While ff is starting up fine, I am now getting the local directory stuff when clicking html links from other applications.

For example, when clicking on the mozilla support link in the email I received from you (probably automated), I get the following in the firefox url when it opens: file:///home/shawn/.cache/kioexec/krun/25909_0/1263235.

I have tested this in both thunderbird and mailspring, as well as with another html link, all with the same results.

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I have stumbled on a bug, I believe has nothing to do with firefox. Not sure still, but this is my exact problem:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400006

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Okay, got it fixed I think. from the bug report above, doing the following fixed it for me:

"It happened after I added a second user in Chromium. In the Plasma application settings, in Default Web Browser, I had "with the following command: chromium". I changed the command to chromium --profile-directory="Default" and it was fixed."