404783 - New Tab Button Preference reset after any update

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Steve Manatt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

After any Add-on or browser update, the New Tab Button Preference under Tools~Options~Tabbed Browsing~User Interface get's reset to "Blank Page" instead of keeping the option I had it set to (Browser Homepage)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. After new update - click on new tab
2. "Blank" tab is presented rather than my preference
Actual Results:  
This has been consistently happening since I started using FF in version 1.0

Expected Results:  
The option in this setting should be maintained after update - especially third-party add-on.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That's an extension's pref, not a default Firefox pref - if you haven't got it sorted out yet, please contact the extension author about his pref resetting.

Comment 2

[Steve Manatt]

This happens with EVERY extension - not a specific extension.  And the behavior that changes is core to Firefox's tabbed behavior configuration options.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Um, the issue is not about with EVERY extension, it's about with NO extensions: with no extensions, Firefox doesn't have a Tabbed Browsing pref pane, and doesn't have any UI to change browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab to load something other than about:blank in a new tab, so what you are describing is not a bug in Firefox, because it's in something that isn't *in* Firefox, it's in one of your extensions.

Comment 4

[Steve Manatt]

My mistake then - sorry for the inconvenience.  I'm simply trying to help - no need for the freaking attitude.  Geez.