402143 - First run page shows every time I open Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Suzanne Farmer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

I have just upgraded to Mac OSX Leopard and downloaded the latest version of Firefox to install. Each time I open Firefox I am presented with 2 tabs - the first being the firstrun page and the other being my homepage. the Firefox firstrun page is the one selected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
2 tabs open 1st = http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.8/firstrun/
2nd = http://www.google.co.uk/ig

Expected Results:  
Expect to only see 1 tab - http://www.google.co.uk/ig after the first time

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

You could try resetting the pref browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone in about:config
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config
See also: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

Comment 2

[Suzanne Farmer]

I have just upgraded to 2.0.0.9 and the problem has gone away. Thanks!