505222 - CTRL+T or New Tab button opens blank tab instead of specified URL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Dave Thenhaus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) FBSMTWB
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) FBSMTWB

CTRL+T or the New Tab button opens a blank search page instead of my homepage. i have add-ons installed which allow user specified URL to load when opening a new tab. This worked perfectly with prior version of Firefox, stopped working after updated version installed. The new tab also opens at the end of tab row, instead of next to current tab, which was the previous behavior.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click CTRL+T
2. Click 'New Tab' button
3.
Actual Results:  
Blank page loads in new tab. New tab opens at end of row of tabs.

Expected Results:  
New tab should open next to current tab, with user's homepage loading instead of blank tab.

Bug occurs in every theme.

Comment 1

[Ian Stirling.]

If an add-on function breaks, contact the add-ons author, and get them to update it.
This isn't a bug in firefox, but the extension.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

This is expected behavior. There are addons that can change this. They can be
found at https://addons.mozilla.org