248051 - Shortcut causes Google search on "profile" when Firefox starts up

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Hume]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040619 Firefox/0.9.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040619 Firefox/0.9.0+

With 0.9 and 0.9+, when I start a build after the inital mozilla statup page, or
when I delete an old extension and install an updated extension, or when I
uninstall and reinstall the same extension, I get this page:

http://profileonline.collegeboard.com/index.jsp

It turns out, the page is the result of a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search on
the word "profile".

This occurs even when the profile directory has been thoroughly emptied.

Shortcut is ""F:\Program Files\Firefox Test\firefox\firefox.exe" -profile
"F:\Mozilla\Test Profile". This does not occur when Firefox is opened by starting 
it directly from the firefox.exe file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a shortcut with -shortcut in it.
2. Install an extension.
3. Close Firefox.
4. Reopen Firefox.

Actual Results:  
Page opens at http://profileonline.collegeboard.com/index.jsp (result of an "I'm
feeling lucky" search at Google.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should open at homepage.

On subsequent starts of Firefox, the browser will open normally at the homepage.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

> incomplete - as I read this, there are steps missing. 
please comment if you still see problem using newest version