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How to stop firefox from loading the index of my home folder on startup

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when starting firefox I get page with an index of all files and folders in my home folder, including all hidden files.

it has at the top in a url bar " index of file:///home/user/"

when starting firefox I get page with an index of all files and folders in my home folder, including all hidden files. it has at the top in a url bar " index of file:///home/user/"

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You can check the command line in the desktop shortcut to see if there is a trailing '.' appended.

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cor-el
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You can check the command line in the desktop shortcut to see if there is a trailing '.' appended.

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thank you for steering me in the right direction while I did not have a trailing "." I did have something in the line that was causing the problem I use a command to play a sound file when opening my apps I had firefox %u $HOME play /home/user/sound/blah when I remove the $HOME but leave the play command and path it works fine

I kept thinking something was wrong with the firefox install thank you again

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You're welcome