Hey!
I have a little problem with my startpage in Firefox..
It is set to go to www.google.com,
though, it always ends up starting with opening up an
about:blank page.

When I open Firefox in the terminal, it wor 1f40 ks fine.
And also, I use Kiba-Dock, so maybe it has something to do with that..?

Anyone out there able to help?? It's getting really annoying...

I have had the same problem.

A good trick is to default the software:

sudo debconf firefox

I also lost once my gnome-panel... My desktop was just empty, I could do nothing...
In terminal I
sudo debconf gnome-panel

and it fixed it...
JUHUU!

PS
For any missing default packages:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop


greetings...