Brave is not launching with Home Page address

[Brave-Matt]

Did you I look for similar issues?
Yes

Description

When settings are configured to start brave with home page, Brave starts with about:blank instead.
Home button on URL bar does route to proper address but opening a new window will also open with about:blank

Steps to Reproduce

1. Fresh install (ideally, I don't think it matters) of Brave *.104/105
2. Open Settings
3. In "General" settings, change Brave Starts with --> Homepage
4. Ensure there is some URL in My Homepage Is input box
   5 (*optional). Add "Home button" to URL bar.
5. Close/reopen
   Actual: Brave opens about:blank (*goes to Home page when Home button on URL is clicked)

Expected: Brave opens to homepage specified in Settings (*goes to Home page when Home button on URL is clicked)

Reproduces how often:

Consistently

Brave Version

about:brave info:
Present on 0.23.104, 0.23.105
Tested on Windows 7 and Windows 10, MacOS (waiting on user info to confirm exact OS)
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Reproducible on current live release:

[bsclifton]

Having trouble reproducing this... I tried on macOS and Windows (both the actual 0.23.104 release and building a binary from 0.23.x source)

[kjozwiak]

Can't seem to reproduce this either on a clean 0.23.105 install. @Brave-Matt does this always reproduce for you on a clean profile?

[Brave-Matt]

Possibly related : https://community.brave.com/t/cant-connect-online-through-email-links/30999
https://community.brave.com/t/cant-connect-online-through-email-links/30999

[kjozwiak]

@Brave-Matt does this always reproduce for you on a clean profile?

[bsclifton]

Possibly caused by #15047

[Brave-Matt]

@kjozwiak sorry for the late reply.

Yes on a completely clean install/profile, issue did not present on 0.23.105 on Win7/10. I wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy so I went back and tried again with older profile - problem repro'd.

[eljuno]

+1s from community https://community.brave.com/t/browser-loading-about-blank-on-startup-while-homepage-is-selected/31087?u=eljuno and https://community.brave.com/t/brave-is-opening-on-a-blank-page-and-not-my-homepage/31138?u=eljuno

[diracdeltas]

I think this was fixed by #15194

cc @bsclifton

[LaurenWags]

Verified with macOS 10.12.6 using

• 0.23.206 80a5ac1
• Muon 8.1.5
• libchromiumcontent 69.0.3497.92

Verified on Windows 10 x64 using

• 0.23.206 80a5ac1
• Muon 8.1.5
• libchromiumcontent 69.0.3497.92

Verified on Ubuntu 17.10 x64

• 0.23.207 281de88
• Muon 8.1.6
• libchromiumcontent 69.0.3497.100

[kjozwiak]

@btlechowski can you please check this against linux? Thanks!