201915 - New tabs open with homepage, should open as about:blank

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 197671

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Paul Klapperich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

Ever since I started using mozilla, pressing CTRL+T has opened a blank tab. Now
it opens the homepage. There should be a setting to allow new tabs to open with
about:blank unless they are opening a link, just like they did in pre 1.3
versions of mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla 1.3 or 1.4
2. Run Mozilla
3. Press CTRL+T
4. Shake fist in anger as time is wasted loading a page you don't want to see.

Actual Results:  
Please see step 4.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have opened a blank tab, rather than one with the homepage. There
should be a setting to prevent this, or this should just not happen. It never
happened before. Why does it have to start now?

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

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