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How do you take control of the Firefox icon in the middle of the home page directly over the search window

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Usually there is a big Firefox icon, then it changed to a map, now it's a shooting gallery. How can you control this?

Usually there is a big Firefox icon, then it changed to a map, now it's a shooting gallery. How can you control this?

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If you prefer not to see snippets on the about:home page then you can set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string on the about:config page.

Delete the storage\moz-safe-about+home folder in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed to remove snippets stored in IndexedDB and make Firefox use a default set.

You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)

You can reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to the default value to re-enable the snippets.

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You mean you want to replace the logo with a custom image?

1. Type about:support in the address bar and press Enter. 2. Click the Show Folder button. 3. In the Windows Explorer window that opens, create a new folder called chrome — make sure you get the spelling right and note that the name is case-sensitive. 4. Launch a text editor like Notepad and paste the following in a new file.


@-moz-document url("about:home") {
#brandLogo { background-image: url("brandlogo.png") !important; }
}

5. Save the file to your desktop as "userContent.css" — including the quotes. Again, be sure to spell it correctly and note that the file name is case-sensitive. 6. Move the file from the desktop into the chrome folder you created earlier. 7. Create a 192×192 PNG image named brandlogo.png and place it in the chrome folder. 8. Restart Firefox for the change to take effect.

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Chosen Solution

If you prefer not to see snippets on the about:home page then you can set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string on the about:config page.

Delete the storage\moz-safe-about+home folder in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed to remove snippets stored in IndexedDB and make Firefox use a default set.

You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)

You can reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to the default value to re-enable the snippets.

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setting the browser.abouthomeshippets.updateurl to an empty string on the about:config page and deleting the folder moz-safe-about+home worked. I now get the big orange Firefox logo instead of the game. Thanks.