198143 - Opening a new tab window automatically loads home page. Should be a blank page with cursor at URL window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 197671

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Theblueman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030316

When I open a new tab, my home page automatically loads in the new tab window. 
The new tab window should be blank and focus should be at the URL dialog box
ready for pasting a URL, typing a URL or clicking on a bookmark. 
This was working properly a week ago.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a new tab window
2.The new tab window has the home page automatically loaded
3.

Actual Results:  
The new tab window automatically loads the home page.

Expected Results:  
The new tab window should be blank and focus should be on the URL dialog box

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
PLease search before you file a bug, this one is very easy to find.

This is a fixed feature.
bug 197671 is about to add a pref for disabling this feature.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197671 ***

Comment 2

[Theblueman]

I actually tried looking for this one.  I searched for bugs containing "tabbed"
and "brows"  and/or "windows".  The search did bring up the the parent bug. 
I'll try to be more careful next time.