http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1145507 Bug ID: 1145507 Summary: Firefox Home page is hijacked by MozillaFirefox-branding-opensuse package Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Firefox Assignee: bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: arnavion@gmail.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0 Build Identifier: Firefox has two preferences for "New Windows and Tabs" called "Homepage and New Windows" and "New tabs". Let's say the user sets both of these to "Firefox Home (default)". The expectation is that these will be set to whatever the user chooses in the "Firefox Home Content" section below. If the user then opens a new tab, the "Firefox Home (default)" that is shown there does indeed correspond to the selections in the "Firefox Home Content" section. But if the user opens a new window, it instead loads "https://www.opensuse.org/searchPage/" This website is inserted by the /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/distribution.ini shipped in the MozillaFirefox-branding-opensuse package, specifically this part: [LocalizablePreferences] browser.startup.homepage="https://www.opensuse.org/searchPage/" There is some value in saying that Firefox is being confusing by mapping the "Firefox Home (default)" preference differently for new windows vs new tabs in the case where browser.startup.homepage is set. But even then, I think it would be better if the branding package instead added a *new* option to the "Homepage and new windows" dropdown titled "openSUSE Homepage" or similar. It's even fine for that to be the default on a new install. I don't think it's fine to hijack the "Firefox Home (default)" setting to point to this homepage, especially when the same "Firefox Home (default)" value for the "New Tabs" dropdown *does* refer to the home content. It is not even clear how the user can avoid this behavior and use the actual Home Content until they search around and find this forums post https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/535371-Firefox-start-page-hijack (set the pref to "Custom URLs" with a value of "about:newtab" instead) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: As described in "Details" -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.