361855 - blank homepage on new tab after updating themes or extensions.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Samanta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Everytime there is an addon update, I update those addons, and then Firefox's homepage loads when you first open up firefox, but upon starting up a new tab, the   tab lost its startup information, and then just goes to an (Untitled) blank page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Firefox
2.Automatically update the addons that need updating (This is the only time the bug occurs, when addons need updating)
3.Open a new Tab

Actual Results:  
Blank page occurs instead of my prefered settings (home page)

Expected Results:  
Homepage should show up just like when firefox first starts up.

I went into about:config and changed a setting for my Tabbrowser Preferences addon, the extensions.tabpref.homePageButtonTarget to 1, 2, and 0 to open up the homepage everytime a new tab is opened, and this didn't work. I uninstalled the addon, and purposely installed an older version of a different addon, allowed firefox to update itself, and it did not load the homepage in a new tab.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The functionality you are talking about is part of an extension and not something that Firefox does. Please tell the extension author about the problem.