226211 - New tab does not open default home page.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 187573

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Leslie S Russell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When you right click in the tab area and click "New Tab" a new tab is created
but it opens a blank page (i.e. no web page is displayed).  This forces the user
to either type a url or click home.  

It would be much better if the "New Tab" would use the current default home page
when it opens.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click in the tab area.
2. Click "New Tab"
Actual Results:  
A new tab with a blank page is displayed.

Expected Results:  
The default home page should be displayed.  Not a blank page.

Comment 1

[Andreas Kunz]

This is a Firebird bug (the suite has this as preference).
And this is not a bug but an enhancement request.

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

-> default owner

Comment 3

[Jon Henry]

This is Firebird-only and a duplicate of bug 187573, which is unfortunately
wontfix. SeaMonkey has a preference to deal with this (you can probably get to
it with about:config in Firebird too), and there are extensions to Firebird
which restore this functionality.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187573 ***

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.