Bug#402337: Support Old localstart.html (Was: Re: iceape art/tradework committed)

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:28:09PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > 
> > I'm more into setting the homepage to about:, and modify it if necessary
> > (at least make it sexier). The remaining problem, as I already said,
> > will be for people who have the old start page "hardcoded" in their user
> > profile' prefs.js.
> > 
> > However, if you really insist on putting the localstart.html file, do NOT
> > put it in an iceape package, but put it in the mozilla-browser package
> > instead. I don't think it is allowed to put files in
> > /usr/share/doc/$otherpackage
> > 
> 
> In fact ... I am fine not to provide the old startpage :) ... 
> however we could put a override for that url into chrome ... pointing
> to about:logo ... you think breaking that single file:/// url forever
> would be acceptable?
> 

So is it worth introducing such an override for those that have the
old homepage in their prefs.js ? In case, what is(are) the exact
url(s) those have in their prefs.js ?

 - Alexander

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