This is part of my manifest.json : ... "chrome_url_overrides" : { "newtab": "index.html" }, "chrome_settings_overrides" : { "homepage": "index.html" } ... index.html is loaded fine on every new tab. However new windows, and on startup, all I get is a blank page. I tried manually jus…

Got it. And upvoted. And yes I was facing it in Firefox 62 as well. Here’s the code I used as a workaround in my background.js: function loadStart(){ browser.tabs.update( { url: "index.html" } ) } browser.runtime.onStartup.addListener(loadStart) // does not fi…

Homepage override unexpected behavior

Add-ons Development

juraj.masiar (Juraj Masiar) September 28, 2018, 6:47am 4

The issues with blank home-page when overriding by add-on are now occurring much more often in Firefox 62. Read part of this thread:

He created a new bug for this:

Please upvote it!

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Homepage override unexpected behavior

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