Firefox 21 is not reading my user.js file.
FF 21 does not appear to be reading or applying my user.js file to the user's prefs.js file. I have installed FF 21, went into about:config, made the changes I wanted so they would appear in the prefs.js file. I then saved that file as user.js and removed all the settings I did not care about. I then reset my virtual machine, installed FF 21 again and saved the file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile. When I started FF 21 it did not apply any of the settings and behaved as if there was no user.js file. Here is a copy of my user.js file:
- Mozilla User Preferences
/* Do not edit this file.
* * If you make changes to this file while the application is running, * the changes will be overwritten when the application exits. * * To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config */
user_pref("app.update.auto", false); user_pref("app.update.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.bookmarks.restore_default_bookmarks", false); user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false); user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://intranet.cdc.gov"); user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "ignore"); user_pref("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies", true); user_pref("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "http://intranet.cdc.gov"); user_pref("browser.rights.3.shown", true);
This same exact file works just fine with FF 20.0.1. I have also tried this file with FF 21 with the comments at the beginning of the file removed.
Any help would be great appreciated.
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hello swahl, the problem probably isn't within the user.js file itself - see http://mike.kaply.com/2013/05/13/more-major-changes-coming-in-firefox-21/
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hello swahl, the problem probably isn't within the user.js file itself - see http://mike.kaply.com/2013/05/13/more-major-changes-coming-in-firefox-21/
Did you try creating a new Profile?
browser/defaults/profile applies to newly created Profiles, or upon installation of Firefox if you're building your own "package"
With an existing Profile, place the user.js file in the Profile folder directly.
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>
http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
You should remove all this - not needed in user,js:
#Mozilla User Preferences /* Do not edit this file. * * If you make changes to this file while the application is running, * the changes will be overwritten when the application exits. * * To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config */
Only newly created profiles are initialized via files in the defaults\profile folder.
This doesn't affect profiles that already exist.
Existing profile can only be affected via a mozilla.cfg autoconfiguration file.
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:
These functions can be used in the mozilla.cfg file:
defaultPref(); // set new default value pref(); // set pref, but allow changes in current session lockPref(); // lock pref, disallow changes