My start page won't open

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limp
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Joined: September 3rd, 2008, 4:26 pm

My start page won't open

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I accidentally clicked the Restore Default button in Settings, and now my start page won't open. This is the path I entered (with quotation marks):

"file:///C:/Owner/Foxbird/Thunderbird/Start Page/start.html"

This is the same path and the same html file I've been using for years, and now, all of a sudden, after accidentally clicking Restore Default, it doesn't work anymore. Thunderbird opens to a blank message pane. What the heck is wrong?
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tanstaafl
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Re: My start page won't open

Post by tanstaafl »

I opened a file using Firefox and then copied that URL (using double quotes) to Thunderbird's settings. It did nothing, and no errors/warnings were reported in the error console. I'm using 102.3.1 with Windows 11Pro. Same problem with 107.0a1 (2022-09-28) (64-bit).

"file:///C:/Users/Eric/Pictures/2880x1800_1655089247050.jpg"

I then changed it to "https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ho ... start-page" . It took three restarts but now its displaying that web page.

Perhaps they dropped support for file:///.
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