Custom firefox eluding me

[mzilikazi]

I wish to have a customized Firefox i.e. skins, extensions, bookmarks, etc. so normally I would simply add /etc/skel/.firefox & /etc/skel/.mozilla to 45xsession:

rsync -Har --ignore-existing /etc/skel/{.rox_choices,.xfce4,Desktop,.Eterm,.firefox,.mozilla} $HOME/ 2>/dev/null

This works fine for most directories e.g. .rox_choices,.xfce4,Desktop,.Eterm but fails for .firefox & .mozilla. They are getting replaced by their default configurations but from where? Who is doing this to me??

Alternatively, anyone know of a remaster that has a customized Firefox?

[kelmo]

could be from here:-

/usr/share/knoppix/profile

There exists .mozilla, which the newer versions of firefox use.

[usulix]

oh.... hey.... I know this one.

Drove me batty for a couple days.....

Check your permissions in /etc/skel

note the s permissions on group for directories needing recursion.

do chmod g+s for .firefox and then manually descend into the .firefox directory and do the same for each directory inside....

if anybody can correct me and tell me how to recursively chmod g+s on directories only... not the files inside ... please do ....

also... if you want to keep bookmarks.html then chmod 755 on that as it seems to default to 500 and the 45xsession script can't copy it that way for some reason.

cheers,
G

[mzilikazi]

At line 80 of 45xsession (at least in Kanotix) you'll see this:

if [ ! -e $HOME/.mozilla -a "$FREESPACE" -gt 1500 ] && [ -d /etc/skel/.mozilla -o -d /usr/share/knoppix/profile/.mozilla ]; then
rsync -Ha --ignore-existing /etc/skel/.mozilla $HOME/ 2>/dev/null
[ "$USER" = "knoppix" ] && rsync -Ha --ignore-existing /usr/share/knoppix/profile/.mozilla $HOME/ 2>/dev/null
fi

Simply make a copy and change .mozilla to .firefox and voila! Well the least I can do is provide a copy-n-paste version eh?

if [ ! -e $HOME/.firefox -a "$FREESPACE" -gt 1500 ] && [ -d /etc/skel/.firefox -o -d /usr/share/knoppix/profile/.firefox ]; then
rsync -Ha --ignore-existing /etc/skel/.firefox $HOME/ 2>/dev/null
[ "$USER" = "knoppix" ] && rsync -Ha --ignore-existing /usr/share/knoppix/profile/.firefox $HOME/ 2>/dev/null
fi

Of course you'll need to also add your own custom ~/.firefox & ~/.mozilla to /etc/skel or this does you no good.

[kelmo]

And this is made even simpler now that newer versions of firefox also use .mozilla for there settings etc.