645189 - about:Home, Home Page not working

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

From error console:
Error: gSearchEngine is null
Source File: chrome://browser/content/aboutHome.js
Line: 184

let searchEngineInfo = SEARCH_ENGINES[gSearchEngine.name];

Search is not functional and snippets are not showing up.

Comment 2

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Not a dupe of 644947.  All of the about Firefox links work for me.

This is specifically about:home

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

New profile help?

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This can have 2 causes:
1. you disabled domstorage in about:config
2. you first started firefox 4 through a link having a hardcoded address in the command line

this is most likely a dupe of bug 615785.

Workaround:
1. ensure dom.storage.enabled is true
2. reset browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID 
3. restart the browser through the common shortcut

Comment 5

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

The workaround isn't doing it for me.  A new profile is always going to help, can't really expect users to go through that process though.

Comment 6

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Yeah but surely dom.storage.enabled will only have been changed by users already comfortable with about:config?

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

The workaround should work, are you sure you are not starting firefox from a custom shortcut or third party software? was your dom storage disabled?

Comment 8

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

dom.storage is enabled.  I'm on Mac OS X so it's a standard dock icon.  No other 3rd party software.  The only thing that's funky is that I was on nightlies and went to production Firefox 4, so I'm sure I'm an outlier.  

There's something funky here - 
From error console:
Error: gSearchEngine is null
Source File: chrome://browser/content/aboutHome.js
Line: 184

let searchEngineInfo = SEARCH_ENGINES[gSearchEngine.name];

So, I'd assume I horked something in Search Engines and/or aboutHome.js.

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Do you have a chromeappsstore.sqlite file in your profile folder? If so could you attach a compressed version of it? it doesn't contain any privacy sensitive data.