Strange Firefox behaviour

[Ahmad Samir]

On 31 January 2015 at 11:57, Heinz Diehl <htd+ml at fritha.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firefox has three different possibilities in Edit -> Preferences -> General
> to chose from what should happen when Firefox starts:
>
> 1. Show my homepage
> 2. Show a blank page
> 3. Show my windows and tabs from last time
>
> When using 3., for a short time the "default home page" (start.fedoraproject.org) loads,
> disappears and my tabs from last time get loaded. The same happens when I previously closed
> Firefox with nothing opened: the default home pages flashes up, followed by a blank screen.
>
> This didn't happen before, and the behaviour is f*** annoying. Tried to user-set browser.startup.homepage
> without any effect, the default homepage came automagically back.
>
> Can anybody see the same phenomenon? Does anybody know when this has been introduced?
>

I can reproduce that issue; if start.fedoraproject.org has been opened
before i.e. it's in the cache it loads then very quickly the restored
tabs are opned.

Setting the home page to about:blank seems to fix/workaround this issue.

Note that if the home page is left blank via the preferences GUI
browser.startup.homepage gets set to about:home, and the same issue
happens but instead about:home is loaded instead of
start.fedoraproject.org , so it's probably an upstream issue, I am not
sure though.

This is with firefox-35.0.1-3.fc21.

-- 
Ahmad Samir