F9: What's up with the Firefox home page?

Joe Smith jes at martnet.com
Mon Jun 9 17:17:19 UTC 2008


Tom Horsley wrote:
> ...
> In the preferences, I set the "startup" page to be be "blank",
> then I exited firefox, started it again, and observed that I
> did indeed get a blank page.
> 
> Then I went back into preferences and set home page to be
> "current page", so finally I have home and startup pointing
> to the same place.

Now try that using http://start.fedoraproject.org as the home page.

Using startup = blank, when I click "current page", FF enters "about: 
blank" in the home page field.

Using startup = home page, and showing start.fedoraproject.org, clicking 
"current page" does nothing.

Entering http://start.fedoraproject.org in the home page entry sets that 
as the home page, but does not affect the "home" button.

Maybe I only imagined that the home button once went to the Fedora page. 
Maybe they want some easy way for newbies to get to a known page. I just 
though it was a little weird that the home button doesn't go to the 
users home page.

Thanks for having a look.

<Joe




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