Set browser.startup.page to 0, to prevent Home Page to be opened

If your Firefox/Iceweasel is set to open the Home Page (or old tabs) at startup, it opens the Home Page as well when opening a new window.

I think this is a privacy issue, since the Home Page could tell a lot about someone - depending on the Home Page. To prevent this from happening torbutton would only need to set browser.startup.page to value "0" while activated and restore the old value afterwards.

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Username: erikesterer

added component::applications/torbutton owner::mikeperry priority::medium reporter::erikesterer resolution::fixed severity::normal status::closed type::enhancement version::torbutton 1.4.0 labels

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Username: erikd

0003-Bug-4204-Set-browser.startup.page-to-0-to-prevent-Ho.patch

Patch to fix this issue.

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Username: erikd

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Username: erikd
Status: new to needs_review

Set all open tickets without a severity to "Normal"

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Severity: N/A to Normal

We set the homepage in Tor Browser to about:tor now for everyone. That's fixing this problem as well.

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Status: needs_review to closed
Sponsor: N/A to N/A
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Resolution: N/A to fixed

closed