1554747 - Homepage doesn't load when network.cookie.lifetimePolicy=2 and privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown=true are set

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1554167

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, defect)

Description

[lmeuerer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new (empty) Firefox profile folder.
2. Create a prefs.js file in the profile folder with the following entries:
   user_pref("network.cookie.lifetimePolicy", 2);
   user_pref("privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown", true);
3. Start Firefox.
4. Close Firefox (the problems do not occur when you start Firefox for the first time).

Actual results:

Problem 1: When you open Firefox, the start page isn't shown (default: https://start.fedoraproject.org/). You only see a blank page.

Problem 2: If Firefox is not running and you open the browser with a link (for example, by clicking a link in your email client), you also see only a blank page and the link isn't opened.

Both problems only appear when no further Firefox instance is already running.

Expected results:

• The start page should always be shown, if one is configured (or if the default is used), not only for the second Firefox window you open.

• If you open the first Firefox instance with a link, the page should be shown instead of a blank page.

Comment 1

[lmeuerer]

The problems exist on:

• Fedora 30 (firefox-67.0-4.fc30.x86_64 installed from the repository), x86_64
• Windows 8.1 (Firefox 67.0.0), x86_64

The problem also exists in:

• Firefox nightly 69.0a1 (2019-05-27) x86_64 - tested on both Fedora 30 + Windows 8.1

With Firefox 66.0.5 (and all earlier versions), the problems do not appear.