326906 - My home page is ignored when I switch LAN settings

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[scloughley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

I operate from home and from the office, and use two networks for my internet access (office network has many security features, my home network is open and relatively insecure).  When I switch from one network to the other, I have to close Firefox and restart, - otherwise I get "page not found".
This is a minor inconvenience, but it works fine.
My LAN setting is as follows:
Automatic proxy configuration URL is http://proxy:8083/

However, each time I do this, Firefox adds a fresh tab and uses its own default home page - the one you get when you upgrade from one version to the next.  I have SessionSaver loaded as extension.
This is irritating, because now I have to also close down this new tab it adds in, every time I restart Firefox when moving from one network to the other.

I believe this is a bug, and I found noone else to have logged it.


Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  See above
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Comment 1

[Cignangulo [:cigno]]

This is probably rather a core than a Firefox issue. 

See also previous similar reports for Camino bug 167900 and bug 327599.

Comment 2

[Phoenix]

After Bug 327599 was fixed, do you still experiencing this problem?

Comment 3

[u279076]

This is not reproducible for me with the latest Nightly. Please reopen if you can reproduce.