Bug 1660243
| Summary: | Firefox opens start.fedoraproject.org instead of Firefox Home when opening a new window | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Calvin Walton <calvin.walton> |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Jan Horak <jhorak> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 29 | CC: | 0xalen+redhat, anto.trande, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, john.j5live, kengert, p+bugzilla, pjasicek, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, stransky |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Last Closed: | 2019-11-27 23:18:38 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Calvin Walton
2018-12-17 22:59:38 UTC
As a workaround, using about:config and manually setting: browser.startup.homepage = about:newtab restores the expected behaviour. So the browser.startup.homepage was not set to about:newtab I believe. Are you able to set to different homepage in preferences now? Please also retest with safe mode: firefox -safe-mode I can't reproduce it ATM. I think my issue is related: I keep setting my Preferences/Home/"Homepage and new windows" to the custom URL about:home, leaving the Preferences/Home/"New tabs" as is - Firefox Home (Default). As expected, new windows and tabs dislpay about:home. However, after package upgrades by dnf, the settings are reset and I get the fedora package default for new windows and tabs: https://start.fedoraproject.org. While I think that it is okay to "brand" the official package by setting a fedora homepage, subsequent updates should not touch custom preferences. https://start.fedoraproject.org is in my top-sites section of about:home anyway... I read the news... This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life. Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '29'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 29 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |