Reproduce: 1. Start a debug build 2. Set preference "Navigator starts with"|"Blank page" 3. Restart it Actual result: You'll see <http://www.mozilla.org/quality/checkin-guidelines.html> Expected result: You'll see <about:blank> Additional comments: I don't think, this is a good idea, because some people (even developers) use dial up lines and some of them have dial-on-demand enabled. So, Mozilla will cause a dialout for nothing.

This was done in bug 28163. Adding a couple of the people from that bug to the cc: list here for input. Should this be a seperate bug or discussed at 28163?

I'd tend to agree. I thought that the checkin guidelines page was going to be the default home page on startup, not forced. Besides the dialup, it introduces what can only be called a defect, and could possibly mask other defects. Certainly the vast majority of even mozilla users will never even think of checking in code. Also, just because a few developers see this page, that doesn't mean they are going to read it or follow it. The cost/benefit ratio here seems questionable.

I'll investigate / fix since I'm familiar with that code.

oh, this isn't a bug. asa is right, you are seeing the intended behaviour of my fix for bug #28163 I'm going to post to n.p.m.seamonkey, asking if it is time to take out this and one other "forced debug-only behaviour"

BTW: I'm already building optimized now, so don't stop the world just for me.

moving to m16.

This has nothing to do with beta. M21 - fix only for internal reasons.

NS 4 look better whitout this thing now it looks like IE

this got fixed a while back.

verified fixed. with a debug build pulled today at 7:30, I see a blank page when setting the radio button to load a blank page upon startup. win2k.