Closed Bug 823295 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

With 17.0.1 the Yahoo home page changed automatically and cannot be undone.

Categories

(Core :: General, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Version:
17 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: ehartf, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 Build ID: 20121128204232 Steps to reproduce: Upgraded to 17.0.1 as a routine upgrade Actual results: Yahoo home page went to an optimized (NOT!) version and cannot be undone. Have cleared history, cookies, cache with no change. This is not a Yahoo change as Chrome and IE continue with the same page format. Expected results: Nothing should have changed except a safer, better browsing experience. Downloaded Chrome and may change my default browser if this cannot be resolved. At least, there should be an option not to use the optimized (NOT!) Yahoo page.
Ed, which URL do you see in your URL bar when you see the "optimized" Yahoo home page? I just tried loading http://www.yahoo.com/ in Firefox 16 and Firefox 17, and they look identical...
The url is just plain yahoo.com The change occurred within the last 2-3 days when I went from 17.0 to 17.0.1 and all of a sudden it was completely different. In 16 and 17 there was no changes. The look is newer with items in different locations, certain sections are gone, all articles are in a list without blocks, the font is newer and aligns closer with the new mail feature. The operations is also different in that the central portion of the screen scrolls way down while the left and right sides are fairly limited. I hate it as the articles are in no order - news, sports, business are intermixed and it does not allow you to choose... I tried to snip the page but it would not work..
That's odd. Plain http://yahoo.com redirects to http://www.yahoo.com for me. Does it not do this for you? What happens if you run Firefox in safe mode? See http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode#w_how-to-start-firefox-in-safe-mode for instructions on doing that.
yahoo.com = www.yahoo.com Firefox automatically puts in the www... Interesting however as I restarted in safe mode and the page reverted back to the original. I logged in and relaoded the page and again it was OK. One time it switched back to the the new and I closed out and again restated in safe mode and again it was back to the original. Something is having an impact on this... not running and special add ons, also did a flash update within the last coupel of days but that was also just a routine event.
Boris, Thank you very much. I think starting it in safe mode reset everything and working fine.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
You're welcome... All starting in safe mode does is disable addons, the JS JIT, and graphics acceleration. At a guess, the problem was some addon....
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