Comment 58 for bug 23369

I've found that SuSE has support for this. So I borrowed the patch "gconf-backend.patch" from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.5.0.4/MozillaFirefox-1.5.0.4-0.1.src.rpm, fixed minor conflicts to make it apply cleanly to firefox-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-0ubuntu6.06 and built a new package. It's working very nice for me for some time now.

The resultant patch is attached below. To test it, apply the patch to the package's source and add "--enable-gconf" to CONFIGURE_OPTIONS in debian/rules before building. After installing the package, make sure you have "config.use_system_prefs" set to "true", otherwise this functionality remains disabled.

It would be nice if we would have this support in Edgy.