630916 - about:home - defaultSnippets remains hidden with some prefs set

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Not sure this is a real bug, but worth to report it.

When I have pref.js with only these two prefs:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID", "20110201211505");
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:2.0b11pre");

then a newer build of firefox trunk doesn't unhide the two spans here:

    <div id="contentContainer">
      <div id="snippetContainer">
        <div id="defaultSnippets">
>>          <span hidden="true">Thanks for choosing Firefox! To get the most out of your browser, learn more about the <a>latest features</a>.</span>

>>          <span hidden="true">It's easy to customize your Firefox exactly the way you want it. <a>Choose from thousands of add-ons</a>.</span>
        </div>

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We only populate the snippets database on new profile creation or upgrade, and we use browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone to determine when that occurs. If you manually create that pref ahead of time and give it the value of the build you're running, then we'll skip that population code, and about:home won't work, yeah. "don't do that" :)

reopen if I'm missing something.