I had a custom new tab page working in Firefox on Arch Linux before I had to reformat due to various reasons and wanted to start new since I was changing my workflow from minimal no DE, no display manager, bspwm to Plasma 5 and SDDM etc.

My custom start page used to work for both new window and new tab, but I must have missed writing down a step because on this try, it’s only working for new tab and not new window.

Original post was on Reddit, but since the sub went private, I can’t access it.

  • wasym@kbin.social
    1·
    10 months ago

    i tried this but everytime i restart the browser it says “Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator.”
    any clue whats causing this?

    • smoof@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      So I guess I did copy the updated version. It works on new tab, but not new window though. I guess I remembered wrong that it worked on new window, too.

      New autoconfig.cfg:

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var {classes:Cc,interfaces:Ci,utils:Cu} = Components;

/* set new tab page */
try {
  Cu.import("resource:///modules/AboutNewTab.jsm");
  var newTabURL = "file:///home/***/.startpage/index.html";
  AboutNewTab.newTabURL = newTabURL;
} catch(e){Cu.reportError(e);} // report errors in the Browser Console

      I’m on Arch Linux, so the folder for the files are in /usr/lib/firefox/autoconfig.cfg and /usr/lib/firefox/defaults/pref/autoconfig.js.