634870 - Open New Window - add option to select Home Page(s) vs. Blank page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187573

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Yosh Mantinband]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b11

I, like many others (e.g., see bug Bug 608693), want Open New Window to open a blank page and not the home group.  When opening a new window (after the browser is already up & running), it gets the home page/group. That's annoying. I open a new window to go to a new site. If I want Home, I press the Home button.

I propose adding an option to give the user control over this - please see below.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Pre-requisite - Set up home page or pages
2.Open Firefox 
3.Click "Open New Window"
Actual Results:  
Opens a new window with all home page tabs (as at startup).
(This is apparently the current expected behavior - see below for the proposed enhancement to give the user control over this behavior)


Expected Results:  
Open a new window with one blank tab. (if the proposed option has been selected)

I am suggesting an enhancement. Add to the options a choice of behavior on Open New Window (or Ctrl-N). The choices should be:

( ) Open Home Page(s)
( ) Open blank page