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As the title says, I want to run a piece of javascript whenever firefox starts.
My actual problem is that the firefox window always opens at 0,0 in the screen. I am on a debian system, with dwm as my window manager. I can successfully change the size of new firefox windows (by passing in the -geometry commandline options), but all attempts to coax it to remember its location have failed.
What works is the following bookmarklet:
javascript:window.moveTo (32, 32);
So now, my problem could be resolved if I could get this piece of javascript to run everytime firefox starts. I've tried putting it in user.js (without the 'javascript:'), but to no avail.
Manav
Posted 2011-08-01T10:35:14.250
Reputation: 153
that works (and the deserving upvote given), but doing it this way means that I'll lose the ability to restore my session. See my own answer for a less hackish way, but as a quick and dirty solution, this was nice :) – Manav – 2011-08-01T15:08:22.023
1looks like I cannot answer my own question for the next 3 hours, so till then here's the keyword: userChrome.js – Manav – 2011-08-01T15:13:40.617
@KnickerKicker, what does your homepage have to do with restoring a session? – Synetech – 2011-08-02T02:58:53.690
@Synetech - the browser will be automatically repositioned only when the browser is set to open the home page by default when it runs. It is an mutually exclusive option: either I set firefox to open the home page, or restore the previous session. – Manav – 2011-08-05T07:54:13.957
Oh, so you’re using a built-in session restore function. Okay, I see. Have you considered using an extension instead (which would provide much more functionality)? – Synetech – 2011-08-06T01:57:10.550