Bug#765777: iceweasel: 31.2.0esr-1 (amd64) - After upgrade "browser.startup.homepage" is ignored

[harald]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 31.2.0esr-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

After regular upgrading the user defined homepage was replaced by about:home

1. I reset the homepage via "Edit-Preferences"; on opening new tabs again about:home was used. The homepage entry was gone.

2. Setting "browser.startup.homepage" in about:config didn't work either. prefs.js was updated, but on startup the homepage was used but once; then the entry was gone again.

I can work around the issue by manually switching to my preferred page on a per-tab-basis, but it's annoying.


-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Add Bookmark Here ²
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/abhere2 at moztw.org.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

Name: DownThemAll!
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Ecosia — The search engine that plants trees!
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d04b0b40-3dab-4f0b-97a6-04ec3eddbfb0}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Flash Video Downloader - YouTube Full HD Download
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/artur.dubovoy at gmail.com
Status: enabled

Name: German Dictionary (de-DE), classical spelling standards dictionary
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/alterechtschreibung at googlemail.com
Status: enabled

Name: NoScript
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Session Manager
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe30}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Tab Mix Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{dc572301-7619-498c-a57d-39143191b318}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: TableTools2
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/tabletools2 at mingyi.org
Status: enabled

Name: The Addon Bar (restored)
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/the-addon-bar at GeekInTraining-GiT.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: United States English Spellchecker dictionary
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/en-US at dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: Gnome Shell Integration
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Package: gnome-shell
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  gnome-shell    3.14.0-1     amd64        graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii  iceweasel      31.2.0esr-1  amd64        Web browser based on Firefox

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.4
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.1
ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-11
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.16-5
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.8-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-1.1
ii  libffi6                   3.1-2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-17
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.0-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-1
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-3
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.17.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-17
ii  libvpx1                   1.3.0-2.1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.9-8
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  fonts-mathjax          <none>
ii  fonts-oflb-asana-math  000.907-6
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-1
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-2.1
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.5-3
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-10
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information