Change default web page

[scottmc]

The default webpage for Bezilla/Browser pointed to an out-of-date page on mozilla.org, perhaps we can point it to something better than that?

[mmadia]

mozilla/browser/app/firefox-branding.js seems to be the culprit.  http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/source/browser/app/firefox-branding.js

pref("startup.homepage_override_url","http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/");
pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url","http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/firstrun/");
// URL user can browse to manually if for some reason all update installation
// attempts fail.
pref("app.update.url.manual", "http://www.mozilla.org/products/%APP%/");
// A default value for the "More information about this update" link
// supplied in the "An update is available" page of the update wizard. 
pref("app.update.url.details", "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/");

// Release notes URL
pref("app.releaseNotesURL", "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/releasenotes/");

// Search codes belong only in builds with official branding
pref("browser.search.param.yahoo-fr", "");
pref("browser.search.param.yahoo-fr-cjkt", "");
pref("browser.search.param.yahoo-f-CN", "");

[mmadia]

This patch removes the outdated /firstrun url. It also replaces the /releasenotes url with about:buildconfig, which is more relevant for BeZilla? purposes. The /releasenotes url is accessible through Help-->Release Notes

I'm still looking for the other default page :  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

--- browser/app/firefox-branding.js copy	2006-09-12 11:50:19.000000000 -0400
+++ browser/app/firefox-branding.js	2009-03-16 22:03:00.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 pref("startup.homepage_override_url","http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/");
-pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url","http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/firstrun/");
 // URL user can browse to manually if for some reason all update installation
 // attempts fail.
 pref("app.update.url.manual", "http://www.mozilla.org/products/%APP%/");
@@ -8,7 +7,7 @@
 pref("app.update.url.details", "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/");
 
 // Release notes URL
-pref("app.releaseNotesURL", "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/releasenotes/");
+pref("app.releaseNotesURL", "about:buildconfig");
 
 // Search codes belong only in builds with official branding
 pref("browser.search.param.yahoo-fr", "");

[mmadia]

mozilla/browser/base/content/browserconfig.properties contained the other default startup page. It was actually stored as " http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/" and redirected to  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

The startup page now points to  http://www.haiku-os.org/community
I'm open to suggestions for a better startup page.

direct link to patches:
firstrun patch,
other startup page patch

[mmadia]

Removed additional urls from firstrun patch.

For now, I'm content having www.haiku-os.org/community as the default startpage. If a better start page is ever created at haiku-os, I'll update the patch to reflect it.

closing ticket.

[mmadia]

humdinger suggested using :  file:///boot/beos/documentation/welcome/welcome.html

currently the documentation is an OptionalPackage?, so i will not be using  file:// by default. once the page is available as  http://, i'm willing to include it. possibly as a first-run or homepage.

[scottmc]

You "could" just make the welcome package a dependency of bezilla, you might look into the dependency thing anyways as it looks like netsurf and one or two others pull in openssl, doesn't bezilla need that as well? Plus by pointing the default page to a page on the PC it will even work for when there's no net connection. Just a thought.

[mmadia]

I don't like the idea of the resolving dependencies in OptionalPackages?. If someone downloads BeZillaBrowser? separately on an image w/o the Welcome package, things would break.

*if* the welcome package is included in all builds of Haiku, then I'd gladly point to  file://

[mmadia]

Adrian: pref("startup.homepage_override_url"," http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/"); seems unnecessary

me: i couldn't find how to pull that page up, so i left it :)

probably no harm in removing it.

Adrian: I've found this "When a user starts up their browser after upgrading (i.e., if browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone is different than the last time the browser started), the URL specified in this preference is loaded instead of their homepage."

[mmadia]

Updated the patch to be : http://ports.haiku-files.org/export/334/haikuports/trunk/www-client/mozilla-firefox/firstrun-default-page.diff

mmadia * r333 /haikuports/trunk/www-client/mozilla-firefox/firstrun-default-page.diff: Created actual cvs patch for #160. The default homepage is now set to :  http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk/docs/welcome/welcome.html This allows the user to browse the most current up-to-date documentation.