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Unread post by postbuz » 2019-03-04, 21:14

Hi,

Had always set Preferences - General - Startup - Home Page to about:blank (in about:config it reads browser.startup.homepage;about:blank)

So I got a blank page when starting up or open a new tab. Similar issue with browser.newtab.url to about:blank.

Now I get the Pale Moon loge page. Same thing with browser.newtab.url to about:blank.

Has anything changed that I missed?

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PB.

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Re: about:blank

Unread post by Moonchild » 2019-03-04, 22:49

Nothing has changed and I verified just now in a new profile with 28.4.0

Setting Preferences -> General -> When Pale Moon starts: to about:blank opens the about:blank page when the browser is started.
Setting browser.newtab.url to the same does the same thing for new tabs.

Everything is working as expected, I don't see any bug there.
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Re: about:blank

Unread post by vannilla » 2019-03-04, 23:10

Do you perhaps mean a page that is effectively blank except that there is a semi-transparent logo in the middle?
If so, then the browser is working as intended.

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Re: about:blank

Unread post by Nigaikaze » 2019-03-04, 23:26

vannilla wrote:Do you perhaps mean a page that is effectively blank except that there is a semi-transparent logo in the middle?
That, actually, is about:logopage. Using about:blank presents (or is supposed to present) a 100% completely blank page.
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Re: about:blank

Unread post by coffeebreak » 2019-03-04, 23:49

postbuz wrote:Preferences - General - Startup - Home Page to about:blank (in about:config it reads browser.startup.homepage;about:blank)
There is a second preference:
about:config -> browser.startup.page = 1 (values)
(One setting defines the home page; second setting directs to start up with the home page)
In Preferences / General, it looks like this:
prefs-startup-homepg.png

New tab (about:blank)
Also uses two preferences.
about:config ->
browser.newtab.url = about:blank and browser.newtab.choice = 0 (use custom url)
(in the alternative, if home page is set to about:blank, can presumably use: browser.newtab.choice = 2) (use home page)
(values, values2)

You might double-check those settings.

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Re: about:blank

Unread post by coffeebreak » 2019-03-09, 20:21

Edit: correcting my previous post:
(in the alternative, if home page is set to about:blank, can presumably use: browser.newtab.choice = 2)
can presumably use: browser.newtab.choice = 3) (use home page)
(values, values2) [/quote]

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