610145 - If home page is about:blank and home page is selected on startup Firefox opens last visited site.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ahmed]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12

Does not open the intended home page if it is about:blank (maybe even other sites but i use about blank) and it opens the page I had opened right before closing firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set homepage to about:blank
2.browse the web, quit firefox
3.open firefox
Actual Results:  
opens the previous page opened.

Expected Results:  
open home page

Comment 1

[Vlad [QA]]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110602 Firefox/6.0a2

Also, could you see if the issue occurs if using Firefox in safe mode:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

How about with a new, empty testing profile? (Don't install any addons into it)
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Comment 2

[Neal Burns]

I've had this problem on Windows.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Please see also http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/833603

Someone proposed that Firefox is silently crashing on exit and then restoring the previous session when it starts up again, which makes sense.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this issue?

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard

Comment 5

[Mickey]

This is NOT resolved. The supposed fix, deleting sessionstore.js does NOT apply to Firefox V 35.0.1 because there is NO SUCH FILE in the profile folders.