465340 - Startup preferences for home page is including the 3.0.4 "what's new?" tab

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Upon cold starting Firefox 3.0.4 I am always presented with the 3.0.4 "what's new?" tab, alongside my home page in a different tab. Home page preferences are set for only my specific desired home page.

This only started happening with 3.0.4

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox 3.0.4
Actual Results:  
A tab is opened with "http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.4/whatsnew/" , "You’ve been updated to the latest version of Firefox,"

Expected Results:  
Only opened up my home page, (about:blank).

No addons.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Mind you, a new profile resolved the issue. Is this a bug that should remain open?

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

On startup it compares your version with the version mentioned in the value of the pref browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone . If it's different you'll see such a notification page and it will give the pref the new value.
If I understand your bug well Firefox was not able to change this pref. Please read http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved