From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.3.99-pre6 i686; en-US; m16) Gecko/20000502 BuildID: 2000050208 The "Home page" url textbox is blank until it is clicked, at which point the contents (i.e. "www.mozilla.org") appear. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start browser 2.edit menu 3.preferences 4.click Navigator Actual Results: Home Page Location box is blank Expected Results: It should contain the home page URL.

isn't there a bug recently filed on this...? not sure what the component was...

This seems to be the case for all the text fields in Preferences (on Linux, at least).

ah, yes, found it... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37650 ***

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