349414 - "Go to my homepage" link broken when multiple tabs set as homepage.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 343999

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060710 Firefox/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060710 Firefox/2.0b1

If a user sets multiple tabs as a homepage (either by selecting a folder of bookmarks as their homepage or manually by inserting a | character between URLs), the "Go to my homepage" link doesn't work because it uses javascript:window.home() as the way to query the homepage.

URLs affected:  http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/central/ and the Firefox Updated page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set multiple tabs as your homepage.
2. Go to http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/central/
3. Click "Go to my homepage"
Actual Results:  
Goes to the wrong page - e.g.  http://www.google.com/|http://www.live.com/

Expected Results:  
Open up two tabs, one containing http://www.google.com/ and the other containing http://www.live.com/

This probably depends on a fix to how Firefox handles javascript:window.home()

However, it is and should remain a separate bug because it affects the user experience of people upgrading their browser.

In the short run, the Firefox Central and Firefox Updated pages should REMOVE or FIX the "Go to my homepage" link.

In the longer run, Firefox should fix its handling of javascript:window.home() or change the way in which it handles multiple tabs.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060819 BonEcho/2.0b2

Also an issue with the above build.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 343999 ***