diff --git a/sources/backend/linbobackend.cpp b/sources/backend/linbobackend.cpp
index 16a519a..6df2b78 100644
--- a/sources/backend/linbobackend.cpp
+++ b/sources/backend/linbobackend.cpp
@@ -426,18 +426,18 @@ void LinboBackend::loadStartConfiguration(QString startConfFilePath) {
         while(!input.atEnd()) {
             QString thisLine = input.readLine();
 
-            // ignore comments and empty lines
-            if(thisLine.startsWith("#")||thisLine.isEmpty())
-                continue;
-            // Remove comments from the end of the line
+            // Remove comments
             thisLine = thisLine.split("#")[0];
             // ignore capitalization
             thisLine = thisLine.toLower();
             // remove empty characters
             thisLine = thisLine.stripWhiteSpace();
             thisLine = thisLine.simplified();
+            // ignore empty lines
+            if(thisLine.length() == 0)
+                continue;
 
-            qDebug() << "reading line: " << thisLine;
+            //qDebug() << "reading line: " << thisLine;
 
             if(thisLine.startsWith("[")) {
                 // we found a new section!