368067 - 'Show my windows and tabs from last time' doesn't work with blank Homepage

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Michael Broadbent]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)

Credit of this initial bug report goes to kripkenstein at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/68784

If you leave your Homepage blank and then set "When Firefox starts:" to "Show my windows and tabs from last time" then it will not show your windows from last time, it will only show a blank page when it loads like it is set to "When Firefox starts: Show my Homepage".

This only happens when the Homepage is left blank. A workaround for this bug is to set the homepage to "about:blank"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit > Preferences > Main 
2. Change the setting "When Firefox starts:" to "Show my windows and tabs from last time"
3. Set the Home Page field to blank (Not the word blank, no contents in the text box)
4. Close Firefox Preferences
5. Open multiple tabs and go to different websites
6. Close Firefox
7. Open Firefox
Actual Results:  
When Firefox is reopened, there are no tabs. There is only 1 blank page.

Expected Results:  
When Firefox was reopened, there should be tabs open with the websites that were in them before Firefox was closed

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Startup: "When Firefox starts, Show my windows and tabs from last time"
and Home Page: empty
WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Hint: Ubuntu-Edgy's Firefox package may contain non-Mozilla modifications. I suggest that you contact the package maintainer, too.

Comment 3

[Robin Monks]

Verified to happen on Ubuntu Edgy, latest package.

Reporter, please also file this bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bugs for the package maintainers, and post the URL of the filed bug here when completed.

Robin

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Reporter, please also file this bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bugs
> for the package maintainers, and post the URL of the filed bug here when
> completed.

Uh, see comment 0? Anyways, this sounds like a Ubuntu/debian specific bug.

Comment 5

[Robin Monks]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Reporter, please also file this bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bugs
> > for the package maintainers, and post the URL of the filed bug here when
> > completed.
> 
> Uh, see comment 0? Anyways, this sounds like a Ubuntu/debian specific bug.
> 
*blink*

OK, sorry about that, but I agree about it being debian/ubuntu specific.

Robin