650692 - If about:home is the first thing you load in a fresh profile, snippet never loads & search button doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 615785

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screencast

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 1. Run these commands (for linux, or the equivalent for other platforms) -- I'm assuming /tmp/foo doesn't exist:
>       mkdir /tmp/foo
>       firefox -profile /tmp/foo -no-remote "about:home"

 2. Try to interact with the "about:home" page that gets spawned

ACTUAL RESULTS:
 (A) Snippets never load (so there's just a small white box instead)
 (B) The "Search" button at the right end of the search field doesn't do anything

Reloading doesn't help, and reopening about:home in a new tab doesn't help.  HOWEVER:  if I quit & then re-run the firefox command from step 1, but this time remove "about:home" from the end, *then* it works correctly.

Broken for me in both Firefox 4 and latest Nightly:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110417 Firefox/6.0a1

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this is because you pass a url to the browser on its first instance, and that causes us skipping defaultArgs parsing.