682543 - Firefox 6 opens an incorrect page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Jones]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Build ID: 20110811165603

Steps to reproduce:

I opened a new Window.

The page that was displayed is clearly incorrect. The page was: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/5.0/whatsnew/



Actual results:

See above.


Expected results:

I am not sure, but probably a page indicating that it has opened Firefox 6.

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Did you just do the update to 6?

How did you open a new window?

Comment 2

[Chris Jones]

Tim

I did the update to 6 (I think) a day or two after the release.

I open the new window by doing File/New Window and this also occurs when I do Ctrl-N.

Comment 3

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

What is your setting (Tools -> Options [General tab] ) for startup and home page?

Comment 4

[Chris Jones]

(In reply to Tim (fmdeveloper) from comment #3)
> What is your setting (Tools -> Options [General tab] ) for startup and home
> page?

It is (believe it or not) http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/whatsnew/

Surely, this should have been amended during the upgrade to v6? Or am I being completely stupid?

Comment 5

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

I am not 100% sure how they push out the what's new URL but never seen it show up as a home page setting. If you change that setting, your issue will be resolved.

Closing bug for now - but if I hear of more people getting the issue we can re-open and try and find the root cause