Bug 2025120 - Homepage is reset to opens start.fedoraproject.org
Summary: Homepage is reset to opens start.fedoraproject.org
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2020436
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 35
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-11-19 23:17 UTC by Andrew Barchuk
Modified: 2021-11-30 18:30 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-11-30 18:30:31 UTC
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Description Andrew Barchuk 2021-11-19 23:17:55 UTC 
Description of problem:

Whenever I change the homepage it's being reset to the default value of opens start.fedoraproject.org after a while.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 94.0


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open about:preferences
2. New Windows and Tabs -> Homepage and new windows: change to Firefox Home (Default)
3. Start Firefox after a couple of days.

Actual results: start.fedoraproject.org is opened


Expected results: see the deafult Firefo homepage


Additional info: -
Comment 1 Phil Coulson 2021-11-21 07:27:44 UTC 
I have noticed this will occur on update, that is, no matter what I have set in Firefox in Settings > General > Homepage and new windows, after an update it is set to start.fedoraproject.org

Can I point out I have been willingly ignoring this bug since at least Fedora 32 (before that I forget) but came to create a bug report (same as Andrew has) because of the update to 94.0. My suggestion is to not replace user preferences with package defaults, it creates a negative experience for the user.
Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2021-11-22 07:56:00 UTC 
Dupe of Bug 2020436 ?
Comment 3 Andrew Barchuk 2021-11-30 18:30:31 UTC 
It does look like in my case also the issue is only happening once a package update is installed. I will close this one as a duplicate of the bug Martin referred.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2020436 ***
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