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How do I prevent privacy message from coming into my home page everytime I open Firefox?

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How do I prevent Privacy message popping up in home page every time I open Firefox?

How do I prevent Privacy message popping up in home page every time I open Firefox?

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What privacy message are you seeing? Can you take a screenshot of it? See, How do I create a screenshot of my problem?

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Here is image of message I'm getting

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Hey,

so, if I understand you correctly, clicking that you don't want to send privacy data doesn't resolve the problem?

If so, see if this article helps you: How to fix preferences that won't save

--Tobbi

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Try Firefox button > Options > Options (or Tools > Options) > Advanced > General > un-check "Submit performance data"


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Not related to your question, but...

You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary to avoid security/stability issues with the Plugins:

Modified by SafeBrowser

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Which security software (firewall, anti-virus) do you have?

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That is a new feature, called Telemetry, that helps Mozilla collect information about how well (or badly) Firefox is running. Here's an article about it - Share data with Mozilla to help improve Firefox

You should be able to stop the message from showing up by choosing either yes or no.