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When I click update, Mozilla says I'm up to date, but google/firefox says I'm not

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I get the google firefox everytime I go to a new tab. Says firefox not up to date. Click update link, mozilla says am up to date. WTH?

I get the google firefox everytime I go to a new tab. Says firefox not up to date. Click update link, mozilla says am up to date. WTH?

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Open a new window or tab. In the address bar, type About:Config. If a warning screen comes up, press the Be Careful button. This is where Firefox finds information it needs to run. At the top of the screen is a search bar. Enter browser.newtab.url and press enter. browser.newtab.url tells Firefox what to show when a new tab is opened. If you want, right click and select Modify. You can change the setting to;

about:home (Firefox default home page),
about:newtab (shows the sites most visited),
about:blank (a blank page),
or you can enter any web page you want.

The same instructions are used for the new window setting, listed as browser.startup.homepage.

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What is your home page as it sounds like you are still using the old Firefox start page http://www.google.com/firefox hosted by Google that was used for Firefox 3.6.28 and earlier releases. It has not been maintained ever since Firefox 4.0 which has the default homepage of about:home since.

How to set the home page article link.

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It started showing up on the last update. I had to reset my home page back to just google.com. Now everytime I open a new tab the google/firefox search page comes up with the error I mentioned. I want to go back to a blank page when I do a new tab. How do I get rid of this showing up on new tabs?

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Do you have and Tab related extensions?

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I didn't before last update. Who knows what's there now. I didn't ask for this google/firefox thing and would rather just have it gone. Do you know how to get rid of it? I did look in add-ons to see if something was added and didn't find anything related. Just flash stuff, and java.

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Open a new window or tab. In the address bar, type About:Config. If a warning screen comes up, press the Be Careful button. This is where Firefox finds information it needs to run. At the top of the screen is a search bar. Enter browser.newtab.url and press enter. browser.newtab.url tells Firefox what to show when a new tab is opened. If you want, right click and select Modify. You can change the setting to;

about:home (Firefox default home page),
about:newtab (shows the sites most visited),
about:blank (a blank page),
or you can enter any web page you want.

The same instructions are used for the new window setting, listed as browser.startup.homepage.

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There are two possible "gotchas" with the new tab page setting:

  • If Firefox ignores the setting, one of your extensions may be overriding it. You can review, disable, and/or remove extensions on the add-ons page:

    orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons > in the left column click Extensions
  • If the change works but at the next startup is back to the unwanted page, you might have a user.js file in your personal Firefox settings folder (your Firefox profile folder). This article describes how to track down and remove the file: How to fix preferences that won't save.
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Thank you. This fixed the problem. It was a setting in the config.