Firefox Hompage

A simple and lightweight script to set a custom homepage, both local and webpages for firefox

The Hompage given is a webpage, meaning any amount of customisation is allowed. The default provided homepage is a striped down version of BeyondMagic's Homepage, with an addition of slightly over a 100 quotes.

init.sh takes a HTML file as input. The file path given is absolute (example: ~/.config/homepage), ie. if the file is replaced the mozilla.cfg file will have to be regenerated by the script, or alternatively you can change newTabURL variable to the desired url in the /usr/lib/firefox/mozilla.cfg.

Todo:

• snap compatability
• Windows & Mac

Note: Requires Sudo Permissions

Installation

• Clone the Repository and cd into it

git clone https://github.com/tejavvo/fire-home.git
cd fire-home

• For convinence move your homepage into the /usr/lib/firefox folder, although it can be any global folder (requires sudo) otherwise it wont work in any other account. If your using the provided homepage the command would be.

sudo mv ./firefox-homepage/ /usr/lib/firefox/

• Run the init.sh file, (note: you may have to make it executable)

sh init.sh /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-homepage/index.html // or whatever filepath.

• And your all set! Firefox should be running your homepage.

Other

• Focus search bar on homepage Even though most of the internets answers didn't work (atleast for me), this script provides a autofocus on the firefox new tab. You can enable this by adding a --autofocus option while running init.sh.

Note: This part is automatically done internally, The code below is the implementation.

--autofocus is internally implemented by adding the following code to mozilla.cfg

// Auto focus new tab content
try {
    Cu.import('resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm');
    Cu.import('resource:///modules/BrowserWindowTracker.jsm');
   
    Services.obs.addObserver((event) => {
        window = BrowserWindowTracker.getTopWindow();
        window.gBrowser.selectedBrowser.focus();
    }, 'browser-open-newtab-start');
} catch(e) { Cu.reportError(e); }

source: BeyondMagic's Homepage