Bug#535858: iceweasel forgets first page setting on quit

[Mike Hommey]

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:22:21PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.11-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> After quiting firefox (usually using the window X button, not quit from
> the menu ...) firefox pretty well always reverts next time to showing
> my "windows and tabs from last time" at startup, though I always set
> the preference in edit preferences to "show blank page" (as appropriate
> for a machine that isn't always on the net). It's annoying!
> 
> This started happening within the last month, after a recent weasel
> upgrade, or maybe after the upgrade which took me to libc 2.9 (and
> which borke cut and paste from an Eterm).

This sounds like your iceweasel instance is crashing when you kill it.
First, does it still happen for you ? If it does, could you try to
attach a debugger before killing iceweasel ?

Cheers,

Mike

PS: I see you are an Ubuntu user, did you really install the iceweasel
package?