263401 - Home page button opens duplicate tabs with "tabbed home-page"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195212

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Angelo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041005 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041005 Firefox/0.10

If using the tabbed home-page feature, the home page button keeps opening
duplicate tabs of the tabbed home-pages.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two or more tabs
2. Set them as home page using "Use current pages" in Options->General
3. Hit the home page button
4. Navigate somewhere
5. Hit again the home page button

Actual Results:  
Duplicate tabs has been opened

Expected Results:  
This can be solved in two ways:
1. open tabs only if there is no duplicate

2. - open all tabs when starting the browser (or opening a new window)
   - open only the first tab when hitting home page button

The second option I think is more intuitive

Comment 1

[Angelo]

I forgot to mention that this feature is advertised on the firefox product home,
on the link tabbed browsing.

A lot of new users may feel confused with this odd behaviour.

Comment 2

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

confirming this bug with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-DE;
rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Firefox/0.10 (MMx)
This is indeed confusing.

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195212 ***

Comment 4

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

*** Bug 260104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***