Mozilla Firefox

Firefox - Multiple Home Pages can be duplicated if they are currently open in other tabs

Bug #387556 reported by stmcc
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Mozilla Firefox
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firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

If I have two tabs open,ie; gmail & reader. When I return to HOME, it opens two more tabs ie.gmail &reader.
This only happens with Ubuntu 9.04. It does not happen on Win XP

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

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In , Bruno-flock (bruno-flock) wrote :

That would be a nice improvement.

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stmcc (stmcc1) wrote : duplicate tabs

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

If I have two tabs open,ie; gmail & reader. When I return to HOME, it opens two more tabs ie.gmail &reader.
This only happens with Ubuntu 9.04. It does not happen on Win XP

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

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stmcc (stmcc1) wrote :
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Did this happen before the upgrade to 3.0.11?

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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stmcc (stmcc1) wrote :

It happened before I did the 3.0.11 update. I was hoping that the update would fix it.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

When clicking on the Home icon, it turns the current tab into the first page of the home pages and then opens the rest regardless of what else is open.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
summary: - duplicate tabs
+ Multiple Home Pages can be duplicated if they are currently open in
+ other tabs
summary: - Multiple Home Pages can be duplicated if they are currently open in
- other tabs
+ Firefox - Multiple Home Pages can be duplicated if they are currently
+ open in other tabs
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In , Mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing (mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing) wrote :

Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387556

This is also present on 3.5~hg20090615r25976 and 3.0.11.
Also present on AMD64.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Already Upstream.

Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369440

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → New
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In , Nickolay Ponomarev (asqueella) wrote :

*** Bug 395401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Nickolay Ponomarev (asqueella) wrote :

*** Bug 422858 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Nickolay Ponomarev (asqueella) wrote :

This is probably wontfix per bug 195212 comment 70 by Mike Connor, but I'm keeping it open to attract duplicates. See also bug 330239.

> The expected behavior after the fix is that the current tab is replaced by the
> home page group leaving all other tabs alone regardless of the setting of
> browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace ? So, the original report where clicking
> Home multiple times in a row continually adds new pages is now expected?

Right.

Trying to be clever about replacing is doomed to failure and strange behaviour,
and reusing the pref is weird. Having another hidden pref to always replace as
with bookmarks could be done as a followup.

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Changed in firefox:
status: New → Confirmed
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Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Low
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In , Matti-mversen (matti-mversen) wrote :

*** Bug 612707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Arnie-goetchius (arnie-goetchius) wrote :

This problem is also now occurring in SM 2.1b2pre

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
no longer affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
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In , Brooksie1 (brooksie1) wrote :

I'm having the same issue. I only have one "home" page set but clicking on the "home" icon duplicates the existing tabs.

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In , Arnie-goetchius (arnie-goetchius) wrote :

Keith Brooks, this problem surfaced a long time ago. Don't expect it to get fixed, ever

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Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Unknown
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Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Changed in firefox:
importance: Low → Unknown
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In , Release-mgmt-account-bot (release-mgmt-account-bot) wrote :

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S4. However, the bug has 3 duplicates.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

For more information, please visit [auto_nag documentation](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/autonag#severity_underestimated.py).

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In , Autonag-nomail-bot (autonag-nomail-bot) wrote :

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.

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