842420 - latest Firefox update changes user's home page definition

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[bert]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130201065344

Steps to reproduce:

Started up Firefox


Actual results:

After 30 seconds, Firefox opened with 3 tabs open; each to a different Mozilla page. My home page info was changed to Google search page


Expected results:

Firefox should have opened to my defined home page not Google search page

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Hi Bert, sorry you're having trouble.

Prior to the upgrade, was your home page http://www.google.com/firefox? That's the only scenario in which your home page would be re-set (see bug 762966). We did that because that page was no longer being maintained, and the functionality of about:home (the new default home page) was mostly identical.

If your home page was something else, perhaps something else is going wrong.

Comment 2

[bert]

My home page was a file on my PC! Also, when I click + for a new tab I used to get snapshots of my Most Visited sites, now it's the Google search page. You guys did this as part of the new upgrade!

Comment 3

[Loic]

Type about:config in location bar then enter browser.newtab.url. What's the value?$
If it's a Google url, reset it. (right click)

Comment 4

[bert]

This is what's on that line:
browser.newtab.url;about:newtab

Comment 5

[bert]

Also discovered that the update changed my download location from my desktop to my downloads folder. PLEASE leave users' configurations alone when updating Firefox!

Comment 6

[Loic]

Firefox doesn't change anything after the update. Something has corrupted your profile, just change it and export your private data:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

I don't think there is something to debug, it's more a support request.
There is the official support board for such support requests: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions

Comment 7

[Ioana (away)]

Please re-open this issue if you can reproduce it with a clean profile.