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Firefox transforms all uppercase characters stored in a HomePage URL into lowercase whenever all tabs are closed.

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dkyates
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I like to set my Home Page to Weather Underground at http://classic.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=98101 . Note the presence of a capital F in "getForecast". I can set this URL to be my home page, and as long as I stay in that session of Firefox, I can hit the Home button and it will work just fine. But if I close the session, or if I close all the tabs in that session, the Home Page URL under Options gets translated to all lowercase characters. So the next time I open a new session or a new tab, the Home Page URL doesn't work. Checking Options shows the URL to have been changed to http://classic.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getforecast?query=98101 . I can change ANY characters in the Home Page URL, and whatever is uppercase gets converted to lowercase whenever all the tabs are closed. To put it another way, this upper- to lower-case translation occurs whenever the LAST TAB is closed, however that is accomplished. I would appreciate any ideas to fix this, but to me it looks like a software bug.

I like to set my Home Page to Weather Underground at http://classic.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=98101 . Note the presence of a capital F in "getForecast". I can set this URL to be my home page, and as long as I stay in that session of Firefox, I can hit the Home button and it will work just fine. But if I close the session, or if I close all the tabs in that session, the Home Page URL under Options gets translated to all lowercase characters. So the next time I open a new session or a new tab, the Home Page URL doesn't work. Checking Options shows the URL to have been changed to http://classic.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getforecast?query=98101 . I can change ANY characters in the Home Page URL, and whatever is uppercase gets converted to lowercase whenever all the tabs are closed. To put it another way, this upper- to lower-case translation occurs whenever the LAST TAB is closed, however that is accomplished. I would appreciate any ideas to fix this, but to me it looks like a software bug.

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guigs
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I understand that this is reproducible when it is just in the homepage. I however cannot reproduce this in Windows or Mac.

Please try to reset the homepage and restart Firefox. Else I would try a new profile.

FredMcD
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See if this helps

Bookmark and use this; Mozilla Search Reset {web link} This add-on is very simple: on installation, it backs up and then resets your search preferences and home page to their default values, and then uninstalls itself. This affects the search bar, URL bar searches, and the home page.

Settings Guard for Firefox {web link} Detects and resets changes to settings that are frequently done by add-ons and application installers.