Default Ubuntu home page concealed by Firefox welcome

[Matt Zimmerman]

Binary package hint: firefox

In the past, the default home page was (correctly) the one provided by ubuntu-artwork. Now, when Firefox is first started, there are two tabs displayed. One of them is the Firefox welcome page, which is focused, and the second is the Ubuntu start page, which is in an unfocused tab.

We ship a custom home page in order to provide the most relevant information to users who are just starting to use the system, and it should be displayed when the user first starts the browser.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

regression -> high

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:38:32AM -0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox
>
> In the past, the default home page was (correctly) the one provided by
> ubuntu-artwork. Now, when Firefox is first started, there are two tabs
> displayed. One of them is the Firefox welcome page, which is focused,
> and the second is the Ubuntu start page, which is in an unfocused tab.

Yes, this is the upstream milestone override feature. Will redisable
with next upload.

 - Alexander

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This is unchanged in the current beta candidate (20070322.1).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:20:15AM -0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> This is unchanged in the current beta candidate (20070322.1).
>

Yes, upload was stuck due to beta freeze. Next upload will fix this.

 - Alexander

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

firefox (2.0.0.2+1-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low

  * reworked patchset and updated thai patch to latest
  * debian/firefox.desktop: updated finnish translation for
    .desktop file (Contributed by Timo Jyrinki <email address hidden>)
  * browser/app/profile/firefox.js: set pref browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
    to "ignore" (Closes LP#91798)
  * browser/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js: disable welcome and update
    url feature completely (LP#91798)
  * use pref distributionID only ... don't hard code this anymore
  * produce chromelist.txt files again (e.g. drop patch that prevents that)
  * exclude patch that disabled mangle dir in
    security/nss/cmd/shlibsign/manifest.mn

  [ Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <email address hidden> ]
   * Update Thai line breaker patch based on libthai.
     - Replace old patch with componentized mozlibthai patch extracted and
       adapted from submitted patch in Debian #366306, which was backported
       from patch against HEAD proposed in bz#7969.
     - debian/control, debian/firefox-libthai.{install,postinst,prerm}:
       + Add firefox-libthai sub-package and Build-Depends: libthai-dev
       + Remove Suggests: libthai0 from firefox (we don't need PR_LoadLibrary()
         hack any more), and Suggests: firefox-libthai instead
     - debian/rules:
       + Add --enable-libthai configure option
       + Exclude mozlibthai component from firefox
       + Add dh_install -pfirefox-libthai.

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:00:00 +0100