64526 - Won't display home page when starting

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, defect)

Description

[Mark D. Leighty]

Build 2001010504 won't display the home page specified in the preferences.  The
URL also does not display in the location box.  Clicking on Home does take me to
the correct home page.  This was working correctly in 2001010404 and before.

Thanks,
Mark

Comment 1

[Fabian Guisset]

*** Bug 64527 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

*** Bug 64525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 64528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

Worksforme
Mozilla 2001010220 on Windows 2000, PC.

Are you sure you selected radio control Home page and not Blank page in preferences.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

simlar to recent bug 64198, where comment states it works OK on subsequent
launches of browser. It was marked fixed because of that, but Tracy Walker asks
to reopen it if anyone else sees problems with it.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

I see this too (Win98 2001010504).

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't see this bug in 2001010904 Win98.

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

Scratch that.  I see this in both 0105 and 0109, but for both builds, it only 
happens when I use -console.  (Mark, were you using -console when you saw this?)

Comment 9

[Mark D. Leighty]

I also still see this in WIn98 2001010904.  I'm not using -console, but I am
using -p profilename.  When starting with the default profile, the home page
loads correctly.

Comment 10

[timeless]

cool, which makes this a candidate for dupe of the disaster bug about non empty 
parameters to mozilla.

Comment 11

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 65006 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[R.K.Aa.]

this is a dup after all.
61121 "Navigator doesn't go to home page on first startup"
64198 was marked dup of that one.

Comment 13

[Blake Ross]

jag?

Comment 14

[Peter "jag" Annema]

RKAa: no, 61121 is about the page you see when you start Mozilla for the very
first time (clean profile etc.). It's what Netscape uses to bring users to an
introduction page.

This bug is about the homepage (or last page, or about:blank, for that matter)
not being loaded when something is provided on the command line.

I'm looking into this (since I broke this), taking the bug (I take it you won't
mind, Bill).

Downgrading severity to normal, this isn't a crasher or the likes (though I
admit it's annoying, so I'm working hard on this :-) )

Comment 15

[Peter "jag" Annema]

Attachment: [patch] quick fix

Comment 16

[Peter "jag" Annema]

This fixes it for the browser, though apparantly GetDefaultArgs doesn't get
passed in to arguments[0] when an application is started with command line
parameters (though I think it should).

For the browser we want to move this code to JS anyway, so this is IMO the right
fix, though I'll need to fix AppRunner one of these days.

Comment 17

[Peter "jag" Annema]

keyword fu, accepting

Comment 18

[Bryant Howell]

Still present in 2001011220 on Win98 with -P or no command line arguments. 

Comment 19

[Bryant Howell]

Change what I said before. Homepage does not load on startup after installation,
or with -P, but does when profile is selected. 

Comment 20

[Peter "jag" Annema]

> Change what I said before. Homepage does not load on startup after
> installation

If you mean after cleaning out all your profiles too, then that is a feature,
not a bug. It's the "one time welcome page".

> or with -P, but does when profile is selected.

The -P should be fixed by this patch which I'll lobby to get in tonight.

Comment 21

[timeless]

r=timeless sorry for the delay

Comment 22

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

a=[e-mail]

Comment 23

[Peter "jag" Annema]

Checked in, marking fixed.

Comment 24

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

yep, this is working fine these days. :)