Firefox opens with different page.
Firefox opens with a different page, opens with a football icon and not the normal firefox icon. This has only started today.
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Were you able to open the about:config page via the location bar and set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string?
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)
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Using+the+Troubleshooting+Information+page
Delete the storage\persistent\moz-safe-about+home folder in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed ("3-bar" Firefox menu button > Exit/Quit) to remove snippets stored in IndexedDB and make Firefox use a default snippet set.
You can reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref via the right-click context menu to the default value to re-enable the snippets and make Firefox recreate the moz-safe-about+home folder.
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That is a feature of the default Firefox Homepage. Last week it was a simple video game.
Do this to get rid of that image and disable it from loading new images in the future.
- Type about:config into the address bar and press Enter.
- Accept the warning, by pressing the big button labeled "'I'll be careful, I promise!'".
- In the search box, paste browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl
- In the search results, double-click browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl to open the Enter String Value dialog box.
- In the Enter String Value dialog, press the Delete key so that there's no text remaining, then press either Enter or the OK button. As a side-effect, only default tips will be displayed below the search box, because new ones won't be fetched from the web anymore.
- Then type about:support into the Location Bar and press Enter.
- Click the Show Folder button. A Windows Explorer window with your Profile folder opens. In that window, open the storage folder, then the persistent subfolder.
- Then Exit Firefox with the Profile folder open.
- Delete the moz-safe-about+home folder.
- All fixed, you can open Firefox.
Thanks for the reply. I cannot get this to work. From step 5 onwards nothing seems to happen after I have pressed the delete key and pressed the Enter or OK button. I dont see where to type about:support, location bar? Regards Dave
Vald lösning
Were you able to open the about:config page via the location bar and set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string?
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)
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Using+the+Troubleshooting+Information+page
Delete the storage\persistent\moz-safe-about+home folder in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed ("3-bar" Firefox menu button > Exit/Quit) to remove snippets stored in IndexedDB and make Firefox use a default snippet set.
You can reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref via the right-click context menu to the default value to re-enable the snippets and make Firefox recreate the moz-safe-about+home folder.
Thanks the-edmeister and cor-el, the problem seems now to be solved. After rebooting my system and going through the procedures again it seems fine. Regards