How To Configure Xguest Firefox Home Page

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I’ve installed CentOS 6.6 on a workstation at a local non-profit as a kiosk machine. I used xguest. Works great, except now the customer wants the Firefox homepage to be one pointing to a particular site. Doesn’t seem to be much documentation on how to make minor changes to the account. Lots of SELinux guidance, but nothing about default home page, etc.

Dave

5 thoughts on - How To Configure Xguest Firefox Home Page

  • in firefox, go to Options, General, and paste in the URL for the home page, OK…

    or, look in $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini and find the Path= in the default profile, and go to that directory, prefs.js, and look for the line … add your URL there.

    user_pref(“browser.startup.homepage”, ““);

  • Somewhat offtopic, watch out for xguest; it can create problems. I.e. if you logout from xguest you can’t log back in, you need to reboot.

    HTH
    Lucian

  • See: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg

    Add: lockPref(“browser.startup.homepage”, “http://www.example.com/path/);

    Google: FireFox Kiosk

  • This is actually an old problem with pulseaudio processes no dying properly on exit.

    I think if you remove the exclusive flag from

    /etc/security/sepermit.conf

    This will work in all situations. The exclussive flag is there to make sure two different users can not login at the same time.