Strange Firefox behaviour

[Heinz Diehl]

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?

Thanks,
 Heinz.

[Heinz Diehl]

On 31.01.2015, Ahmad Samir wrote: 

>  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. 
Yes, that's exactly what's happening here.

[Ahmad Samir]

On 31 January 2015 at 11:57, Heinz Diehl <htd+ml(a)fritha.org&gt; 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

[Joachim Backes]

On 01/31/2015 10:57 AM, Heinz Diehl 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?
>  
>  Thanks,
>   Heinz.
>   
>   
Seeing this too (firefox-35.0.1-3.fc21.x86_64), but don't know since
which FF version.

Joachim Backes

-- 

Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
Kernel-3.18.5-200.fc21.x86_64


Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de&gt;
https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes