299104 - start page isn't shown anymore

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Markus Faßbender]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Start TB (1.0+ 2005-06-28) and in the message pane is only a blank page shown. 
The preference is set.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start tb

Actual Results:  
no start page is shown

Expected Results:  
you should see the start page

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

if you click restore to default, does it start working again?

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

this is probably because start.html doesn't exist anymore, we use start.xtml now
for localization reasons.

Comment 3

[Markus Faßbender]

(In reply to comment #1)
> if you click restore to default, does it start working again?

Yes, after clicking restore and restart TB than it works again. 

But there should be a convert script for existing profiles, if users have
already an old profile with start.html.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

David, for some reason some users are getting the default value for the mail
start page listed as a user pref in prefs.js. We've since changed our default
start page so the old start.html is no longer in the chrome package. As a
result, these profiles load empty start pages instead of the new default start
page.

I added a piece of migration code which just removes the user pref if it was
set to the old start page. Re-reading it again then causes us to read in the
new default page location.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 187880 [details] [diff] [review]
the fix

wierd...

Comment 6

[Markus Faßbender]

I figured out 2 more start page bugs in the trunk builds:

bug 299796 Background image on start page isn't shown correctly
bug 300445 start page isn't shown when you visit inbox the second time