Asa Dotzler wrote:
> Jay Garcia wrote:
>
>> Asa Dotzler wrote:
>>
>>> JTK wrote:
>>>
>>>> Huh, that's interesting, because the lastest nightly comes up with a
>>>> "Netscape 6: What's New?" page:
>>>>
>>>> http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/su_setup.html
>>>>
>>>> Lord.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You've obviously installed a Netscape 6 build and shared a profile
>>> between Mozilla and netscape 6. This is not recommended. If you query
>>> bonsai or lxr you will find that there are no references to that page
>>> in the Mozilla code.
>>>
>>> --Asa
>>>
>>
>> I understand ....... Dan has pointed this out as well.
>>
>> However, why did this happen for the very first time with this
>> particular build.
>>
>> Goblins I s'pose ... :-D
>>
>
> A new feature landed which changed the behavior of the "first run" page.
> It used to be that the first run for a profile would give a special
> "first run" page. That was was changed so that now it will give that
> special page when a new release is installed. This means that if you
> have 0.9.3 installed and created a profile with it and then you install
> 0.9.4 and use that same profile you will see the "first run" page again.
> Hopefully you won't see it again on nightly builds since the piece of
> the user agent string they're looking at will stay at 0.9.3+ or 0.9.4+
> for all of those nightly builds. I think it's something like that. All
> of this is speculation based on little bits of bug and checkin comments.
>
> --Asa
>
The "first run" page overrides the preference "start with blank page" ??
Seems to have done that here. But as you said this "feature" has
disappeared with subsequent nightlies.
Thanks for the explanation.
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Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
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