[RESOLVED] Firefox opens to a blank screen instead of home page

[Parallax]

I recently reinstalled Firefox 2.0.0.13 to try to resolve several odd issues. Most of the old issues were resolved but now I have a new problem. I have it set to go to my home page when it starts, but it won't do it. It starts with a blank page instead. I can, however, click the "home" icon and get to my home page after FF has been loaded.

Every time it starts I open FF to check my settings and it's always been set to open my home page and not a blank screen.

Any suggestions?

Running Windows XP Home SP2

Thanks!

[104456]

Under options/main do you have show a blank page set in the drop down menu perhaps.Instead of my example one of the other two options?

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2750/fflz4.png

[Broni]

Close Firefox.
Go Start>All Programs>Mozilla Firefox, and click on Mozilla Firefox(Safe Mode)
Same thing?

[Parallax]

104456
In response to your question...

I have it set to go to my home page when it starts

and

Every time it starts I open FF to check my settings and it's always been set to open my home page and not a blank screen.
:p


Broni
I'll try the safe mode option right now. Thanks.

[Parallax]

I opened it three times in safe mode and it brought up my home page every time. I didn't get a blank screen with any of these starts.

So is the problem more than likely with one of my extensions? I don't think it would be anything that I modified since I just installed it and I started getting the problem before I made any changes.

These are my extensions:
AdBlock Plus 0.7.5.4
Autohide 1.2
Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic 1.7
Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6

[Broni]

What you have to do is to start in normal mode, go Tools>Add-ons, and disable all 4 extensions.
Restart Firefox. Home page loads OK?
If so, enable one extension.
Restart. Home page OK?
Enable second one. Restart....and so on.

[Parallax]

Luckily, I found the culprit with the first one I tried. Tab Mix Plus. I checked all of my settings in there and I don't see anything that would conflict with starting up FF.

I'm assuming that since TMP hasn't been updated for exactly a year, that the issue would be more with FF. My guess is that it would be better for me to roll-back FF as opposed to TMP, right? If I don't hear anything from anyone soon I'll just do that and report back what happens.

Thanks for the help

[Broni]

Wait. What do you mean by rolling back Firefox?
I use TabMixPlus, and I have no problems. Let me look through its settings.

[Broni]

What do you have here:
http://smartestcomputing.com.ipbhost.com/uploads/post-1-1212373909.gif
Blank page?

[Parallax]

Same thing you do. Blank page. I've always had it set that way. None of the other options are really practical for me.

[Broni]

Wait a sec.
You said, you don't want blank page:
I have it set to go to my home page when it starts
If so, you have to change "blank page" in TMP to "home page" in drop down menu.

[Parallax]

When I start FF, I want it to bring up my home page. I want a blank page when I do a Ctrl+T to bring up a new tab once FF is running. I've been using Tab Mix Plus for over a year now with both settings that way. Hmmm....

[Broni]

You're right. I was wrong.
It may be worth to uninstall, and reinstall TMP.
Let me know.

[Parallax]

I've got to call it quits for the night but I'll be back on this on Monday. Maybe before work but definitely after.

Thanks again

[Broni]

No problem. Don't lose any sleep over it...hehehe

[Parallax]

I think the problem worked itself out somehow. This is roughly what I did:

Uninstalled FF 2.0.0.14, but saved my profile sub-folder and my bookmarks.
Installed FF 2.0.0.12 then imported my old profile sub-folder.
Opened FF, which went immediately to my home page because Tab Mix Plus was disabled.
Disabled TMP, then restarted FF, which opened up to a blank page.
Enabled TMP, then restarted.
Changed the setting in TMP to say "Load on new tabs: Home Page"
Restarted FF and got a blank page.

Here's where it gets interesting. I started toying with the session manager and crash recovery settings. Without going into detail about all of the different combinations of changes I went through, suffice it to say that something I did fixed my problem. I'm now getting my home page when I start Firefox and I get a blank screen when I open a new tab. Even though I believe that my current settings under the heading "Sessions" are exactly what they were before I started changing them, and what they've been for a long time.

By the way.... My home page (http://www.tenclub.net/) http://discussions.virtualdr.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Thanks for the help :D

[Broni]

Good news, then :)
BTW, I love Pearl Jam!