576027 - New windows about:blank misrender

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul-Kenji Cahier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100629 Minefield/4.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100629 Minefield/4.0b2pre

New windows with about:blank set as homepage have disabled context menu and bad rendering
Subsequent tabs opened render properly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set about:blank as default homepage
2.Set browser.display.background_color to something visible, like #FF0000
3.Open a new window
Actual Results:  
The new window content is all white. Right clicking on it does not yield any context menu.

Expected Results:  
The new window content should be of browser.display.background_color coloring.
It should also have a working context menu.

Appeared in trunk around the 4.0b2pre.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

This is not a dupe of that. Picked the wrong tab.

Comment 3

[Paul-Kenji Cahier]

For those having the issue and finding it annoying, here's a temporary extension based solution to the symptoms:
- Install uc ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/122179/ )
- in your profile folder, create a file named userchrome.uc.js
- in it just put "openUILinkIn("about:blank","current");" without quotes(or whatever homepage you might have an issue with)

From now on when opening a new window, userchrome will be run, and force a proper reload of homepage.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Do you still see this with Firefox 4 final?

Comment 5

[:aceman]

I cannot reproduce this in Aurora 6 on Linux. Is it still valid?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Paul-Kenji Cahier seems to be gone