<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Configure the Source</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Mozilla Optimization Mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Patch the Source" HREF="patch.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Compile the Source" HREF="compile.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Mozilla Optimization Mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="patch.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="compile.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="configure" ></A >5. Configure the Source</H1 ><P >Another problem with using Mozilla in a personal or production environment is that it contains code which will override any home page that you set on a timed basis, or whenever a new release of the product is distributed. </P ><P >Since this information is stored in a configuration file, the easiest thing to do without breaking the browser is to change the configuration file to point default homepage settings to one that is more consistent with the environment that you are using. </P ><P > Mozilla conveniently stores most of its compile-time configuration files with a <EM >.properties</EM > extension. You can use these files to specify text in message dialogues, fonts, and other options. In this case, assuming that your locale and language settings are <TT CLASS="envar" >en-US</TT >, the <EM >.property</EM > file that you will need is <TT CLASS="filename" >region.properties</TT > which is located in the <TT CLASS="filename" >xpfe/browser/resources/locale/en-US/</TT > directory. </P ><P > The changes that you need to make to this file are fairly straight forward. As a general rule, I replace the value portion of the name/value pair to one of my own choosing in every instance where the word <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"homepage"</SPAN > is mentioned in the configuration. </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > # navigator.properties homePageDefault=http://yoururl.com shopKeyword=keyword:shop [Product] quoteKeyword=keyword:quote [Enter symbol here] localKeyword=keyword:zip [Your zip code] keywordList=http://home.netscape.com/escapes/keywords webmailKeyword=http://webmail.netscape.com careerKeyword=keyword:[Your city] careers fallbackDefaultSearchURL=http://search.netscape.com/cgi-bin/search?charset=UTF-8&search= otherSearchURL=http://home.netscape.com/bookmark/6_0/tsearch.html # # all.js # browser.startup.homepage=http://yoururl.com browser.throbber.url=http://yoururl.com browser.search.defaulturl=http://search.netscape.com/cgi-bin/search?search= wallet.Server=http://www.mozilla.org/wallet/tables/ wallet.Samples=http://www.mozilla.org/wallet/samples/ #config.js # startup.homepage_override_url=http://yoururl.com </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="patch.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="compile.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Patch the Source</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Compile the Source</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >