305575 - browser opens with list of tabs instead of single home page after setting home page to Google search

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Oliver Hoffmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050814 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050814 Firefox/1.0+

I set the home page for the latest Der Park Alpha 2 to a Google search results
page. Subsequently, any new browser window opened with a (static) set of saved
tabs. Mind you, the tabs were not necessarily related to the Google search, they
just happened to be open when I set the new home page. The only way to get rid
of the unwanted tabs was to reset the home page through tools/opetions again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open up some tabs
2. conduct a google search in oen of the tabs
3. set the Google result as new home page in tools/options
4. press Ctrl+N to start a new window

Actual Results:  
the new browser window has a set of tabs open

Expected Results:  
the new browser window should have started with only one tab, containing the
home page

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

When you have multiple tabs open, the button in options to set the homepage is
"Use Current Pages" which bookmarks all the tabs you have open so this is
working as intended.

Comment 2

[Oliver Hoffmann]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1)
Gecko/20050814 Firefox/1.0+
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1)
Gecko/20050814 Firefox/1.0+
> 
> I set the home page for the latest Der Park Alpha 2 to a Google search results
> page. Subsequently, any new browser window opened with a (static) set of saved
> tabs. Mind you, the tabs were not necessarily related to the Google search, they
> just happened to be open when I set the new home page. The only way to get rid
> of the unwanted tabs was to reset the home page through tools/opetions again.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. open up some tabs
> 2. conduct a google search in oen of the tabs
> 3. set the Google result as new home page in tools/options
> 4. press Ctrl+N to start a new window
> 
> Actual Results:  
> the new browser window has a set of tabs open
> 
> Expected Results:  
> the new browser window should have started with only one tab, containing the
> home page

(In reply to comment #1)
> When you have multiple tabs open, the button in options to set the homepage is
> "Use Current Pages" which bookmarks all the tabs you have open so this is
> working as intended.
> 

This button says "use current page", not "use current pageS", so it does not
work as expected.