1231037 - "Use Current Pages" under about:preferences > General adds the about:preferences tab itself to the homepage url list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1043586

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[szmatlock]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151029151421

Steps to reproduce:

When I click Home button the Options tab starts up as well.


Actual results:

When I click Home button the Options tab starts up as well.


Expected results:

The options tab should not have come up along with the current tab going to Home page.

Comment 1

[Sayed [:LiquidO2]]

I think I understand your problem.

Steps to reproduce your problem : 

1. Open a html file in Firefox

2. Go to about:preferences

3. general > homepage section

4. Click "Use Current Pages"

 Now when you click homepage button, both preferences tab and your desired homepage tab is opening.

Steps to avoid this : 

1. Open a html file in Firefox

2. Copy the url of that page from address bar

3. Go to about:preferences

4. general > homepage section

5. Paste the page url

Now it should work. 


Detailed explanation: 

When you click "Use Current Pages" button, Firefox adds all open tabs' url as homepages. 
If you look closer, you will find "|about:preferences" at the end of the url box when you click "Use Current Pages"


I have reproduced it on Linux 32 bit, with latest Firefox Nightly 45.0a1

Build ID 	20151207030210
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0

Comment 2

[Rakibul Islam Ratul]

Platfrom:
Windows 8.1 64bit

Reproduced this bug on latest Version 45.0a1 (Build ID; 20151206030448; User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0)

As per comment 1 changing the status to unconfirmed to new

Comment 3

[[:Towkir] Ahmed]

well, I have both affirmative and negative opinion about this issue.
the button says "use current pages" not page. so it is supposed to add multiple pages. 
[1] but how can homepage be multiple pages ?
[2] even if it is adding multiple pages, it should not add the about:preferences page itself.

about fixing, I will say, either
[1] change to "Use current page" and allow only one tab/page to be homepage.
[2] remove the about:preferences page from that list.

temporary fix for reporter is:
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1. open your desired homepage, and copy the url
2. visit about:preferences
3. paste your only url to the homepage field.

many thanks

Comment 4

[[:Towkir] Ahmed]

beside, this is a trunk