577660 - New window uses startup homepage but is not really a startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187573

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Campbell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:2.0b1) Gecko/20100630 Firefox/4.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:2.0b1) Gecko/20100630 Firefox/4.0b1

When opening a new window the home page from the startup preferences in used.  This behavior is not convenient when at startup several tabs are loaded.  Additionally, a new window is not really startup so if this is the desired behavior then the wording of the preferences could be a bit better.  New window should work like new tab, or even better have it's own option for page(s) to display.  Chrome creates a blank tab, Firefox could one up it here.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set a multi-tab home page.
2. Restart Firefox and see the tabs open.
3. Select new window from the file menu
4. New window opens with all the same tabs.
Actual Results:  
2 windows with identical tabs were opened.

Expected Results:  
1 window at startup should have the home page tabs loaded, when selecting new window a single tab window should appear.