From: Wayne Stallwood
Ok this is really bugging me now.
Ever since I first tried Phoenix it has insisted on going to http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ whenever I start it up.
If I then press the "home" button it takes me to my homepage of choice. If I watch the status bar at the bottom on start-up I can see it going to Google (my preferred homepage) and then suddenly changing it's mind and going over to Barnes.
I have recently re-installed Phoenix (to upgrade to Moz) by nuking the whole installation dir. I have grep'ed both my moz profile (in home) and the chrome dir. On at least a few occasions I have deleted my profile and created a new one.
No-one else seems to be able to replicate this on their system. and I have only one machine (my main one) that does it.
It is now really tainting my experience of what is a lovely, lovely browser. I am sure it is not a problem with Moz itself, otherwise others would be reporting it as a bug, but apart from the profile what could it be ?
A couple of thoughts that might be relevant;
Is it something built into the Phoenix package you're installing from? (source tarball, rpm, deb, etc). It might go away if you got another copy from a different location or used a different install strategy.
Have you tried using a different homepage than Google? About a year ago Google decided that my PC at work was a WAP device for a couple of days, so your problem might be Google rather than your system.
Have you tried disabling Java and/or JavaScript in case there's a rogue script kicking off somewhere?
Regards,
Keith