1091819 - New homepage not retained beyond current session in 33.0.2

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[kiwimunted]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141027150301

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to set a new home page via 'Options > General > Home Page' using the 'Use Current Pages' button.
Also tried setting the home page via About:config > browser.startup.homepage.
Have also tried clearing the cookies and cache after setting the home page each time.


Actual results:

The new home page was invoked during the current session, but instead the old home page is invoked every time the browser is re-opened.


Expected results:

The home page that was last set should have been invoked each time the browser is opened.

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

WFM on FF 33.0.2, Win 7 x64.

Please check if the issue occurs using Firefox in safe mode (with your addons disabled):
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

And on a new, empty profile:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Comment 2

[kiwimunted]

Hi Paul,
Issue still occurs with add-ons (extensions and plugins) disabled.
Issue still occurs with an empty profile.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Does browser.startup.homepage keep your custom value or does it actually get reset after a restart?

Are there other preferences that don't persist?

Comment 4

[kiwimunted]

browser.startup.homepage gets reset at restart.
Sorry haven't noticed if any other values get reset.