1073160 - Firefox not opening with home page although requested to do so

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[jskatz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140923175406

Steps to reproduce:

firefox updated to version 32.0.3
Opened browser
Browsed to new page
Closed browser



Actual results:

Browser remembers new page and displays it


Expected results:

Should see home page selected in options/general

Comment 1

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Hello,

can you please check this page:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-previous-session#w_configuring-session-restore

and give us a feedback if this settings are on "show my home page".

Comment 2

[jskatz]

Attachment: 2014-09-29_11-25-38.png

I attached an image of the options/general tab. I have Firefox start with my home page (www.cnn.com). What I see happen is first the selected home page displays and then immediately switches to the last page I was viewing when I closed the browser.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to jskatz from comment #2)
> Created attachment 8496893 [details]
> 2014-09-29_11-25-38.png
> 
> I attached an image of the options/general tab. I have Firefox start with my
> home page (www.cnn.com). What I see happen is first the selected home page
> displays and then immediately switches to the last page I was viewing when I
> closed the browser.

How do you close your browser, and are you sure it isn't crashing on exit?

Can you reproduce if you use Firefox's Safe Mode (Help > Restart with add-ons disabled, then browse to a page, exit, and when next starting Firefox, hold the "shift" key on the keyboard to open in safe mode)?

Comment 4

[jskatz]

I have no add-ons and, yes, I can reproduce it in safe mode. Like I said originally, this behavior started after I updated Firefox (see original comment for version).

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Steven, can you help figure out what's going on here? :-)

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

If you go back to version 31, does the problem reproduce?

Comment 7

[jskatz]

Firefox suggests to reset:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems

This worked.

Comment 8

[jskatz]

Firefox suggests to reset instead of going back versions.