solved: updated iceweasel firefox goes to nonexistent http://firefox

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I reolved annoying bug behavior
of

1. firefox startup looking for http://firefox/
which was redirected by my ISP to an ad company site.

2. firefox ignored home page preference on restart of firefox.

Solution:

replace icon shortcut from

firefox %u

to

firefox http://yourchosenhomepage

thus

firefox http://www.google.com
or
firefox file:///home/userid/home.html

thank you all for help.

Mitchell

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