459124 - Setting homepage to 'about:' redirects to 'about:blank'

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Valdis Kletnieks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080925021239 Minefield/3.1b1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080925021239 Minefield/3.1b1pre

If I'm in the URLbar, and enter 'about:blank', I get a blank page. Good.

If I'm in the URLbar, and enter 'about:', I get a page with the logo and the build identifier and a few other things.  Also good.

I set my homepage to be 'about:' so that when I launch, it immediately shows my the build identifier (useful when I'm updating to trunk builds several times a week, and need to know if I've launched today's x86_64 build or Tuesday's i386 build).  However, what actually *displays* is 'about:blank'.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

WFM on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081007 Minefield/3.1b1pre ID:20081007033730

Could be a Linux thing.

Comment 2

[Valdis Kletnieks]

Tracked it down to bustification in the 'torbutton' plugin, of all things.  Will take the issue up with that extension's developer(s)...