How do I select features (e.g. news, investment info, sports news etc.) to the Firefox home page. It currently only contains a google search box ?

My Firefox homepage currently only contains a Google search box. How do I select features (e.g. news, investment info, sports news etc) to the Firefox home page.

The current build-in Firefox home page about:home doesn't have such extra features. If you need those then change the home page to http://wwww.google.com
* [[How to set the home page]]

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I have somehow deleted the toolbar from my Firefox home page. How can I retrieve it, and hopefully my bookmarks, Tools, etc.

Hello.
Go into View > Toolbars and select the toolbars you want to be displayed. If you don't see the menu bar, simply tap ALT in your keyboard. Rightclicking anywhere in the toolbar will also present you with the menu (don't rightclick stuff that can be rightclicked for other functions, like the back menu or the tabs).

When i click on firefox, i get a page that does not show my google search box, how do i acces it?

there is a red page in the way of google search box.
how do you get rid of the red page, and just go back to the google search box?

If you key into the location bar ''about:home'' that will open the homepage with the google search bar in the Center of it.
If that has a red box in front of it please take a screenshot of it and post it n your next message
* see [[How do I create a screenshot of my problem?]]
If the page looks ok then set that as your normal homepage as explained in this article:
*[[How to set the home page]]

How do I stop the Firefox home page from automatically loading. I have rest my homepage to where I want it. But the Firefox homepage still loads automatically

When I open Firefox, the homepage I set opens...as does the Mozillza Firefox home page which opens in a separate tab. It is an extra tab I DON'T want. How do Is stop it?

The instructions are clear and easy to understand, however, it doesn't always work.
I set my home page to www.google.com (only one tab opened up), clicked OK to save google as my home/start page.
I closed all browsers, started FF and it worked.
However, the next time I started FF it came back with the hooray, your ff is up to date.
I also set my home page to my internal work site URL, same problem.
I'm using version 23.0
I also tried going to google, and dragging the icon at the beginning of the URL to my home page icon. Still doesn't work.
DOH

I downloaded a new version of WinZip. It highjacked my Firefox home page. I keep trying to get old settings back but there is all this stuff including Bing as home page. What do I do?

I have tried dragging and dropping MyYahoo into the home page and it resets to Bing every time I log back in.

Hi Mnor,
You should take a look at the Knowledge Base article [[How to set the home page]]. Your homepage might have been changed by a particular site. Sites like MSN, Yahoo, etc (and it seems winzip) have been know to ask to become your homepage.
There are steps in that article to reset your homepage preferences to default. I would try that first to clear out any strangeness. If that works, you can try setting your homepage again to your personal preference.
If that doesn't work you should look at the article [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved Preferences not saved].
Finally, your issue may be because you've been hit with some [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Is%20my%20Firefox%20problem%20a%20result%20of%20malware?s=malware&r=0&e=sph&as=s#w_how-do-i-get-rid-of-malware Malware].
Hopefully this helps!

How do I get rid of the quicklink tips under the google search bar on the Firefox home page?

I want to lose the quicktips that appear under the Google search bar when I open Firefox

You can install the Stylish extension and add the above posted code.
*Stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/
See also http://userstyles.org/help/stylish_firefox
About changing the above mentioned browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref:
Type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key to open the about:config page, just like you open a website by typing the URL in the location bar.
*If you see a warning message then you can confirm that you want to access the about:config page.
Use the search bar at the top of the about:config page to locate the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref more easily.
Double click the line with this pref to modify the value and simply remove the URL that you see to leave an empty string field.
Click OK to confirm the new empty value.
This will disable loading new snippets from the server.
Steps 2-4 are about clearing already downloaded snippets, but you can skip this and only hide the snippets with the Stylish extension.

How do I resize the Firefox home page, so that it has very little white area and mostly background persona?

I like the'' personas'', and I would like to see them as the total background, with just a small white box in the middle for Mozilla Firefox's home page. Right now I just see a small strip of the persona on top and a very narrow strip on the bottom, with a Mozilla Firefox logo in a huge white box - not useful and not nice to look at.
Is there a way to change the dimension of the big white box (like moving the dimension of a text box in Word)?
Thank you.

My home page background has a design on it. How can I change it back to its original plain background.

When I launch Firefox 5, two (2) windows open: the "What's New" window and a second window with the correct Home Page. How do I stop the "What's New window from opening when I launch Firefox 5?

Further: I'm running Windows XP.
This happens every time I open Firefox 5 and began just after I upgraded to 5.0.
Note: I've tried suggestions from the various posts in this forum from people who have similar problems, but with no luck. The problem still persists. Does anyone have any suggestions ??

hello, this might happen when firefox is not able to properly save preferences in its profile folder. please try this: Click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and then click help [[Image:Help-29]] > troubleshooting information > profile folder - "show folder". then a new window will open up. in this window look out for a file named '''user.js''' (it might be used to overwrite your custom settings). in case it is present , delete or rename this file and restart firefox afterwards.
for more information and other steps please also see: [[How to fix preferences that won't save]]

I have lost the upper and lower tool bars on the Firefox home page. Now I have to scroll my mouse to the top of the screen in order to bring them up. How can I get the bars back?

The home page fills my entire screen now and it didn't before. This happened about a week ago. I tried to do a Restore on my system but the problem still exists. The Firefox button on the left has disappeared too.

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in full screen mode (press F11 or Fn + F11 to toggle; Mac: command+Shift+F).
If you are in full screen mode then hover the mouse to the top to make the Navigation Toolbar and Tab bar appear.
You can click the Maximize button at the top right to leave full screen mode or right click empty space on a toolbar and use "Exit Full Screen Mode" or press F11.

How do I re-set the Firefox home page address.

''dupe of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/910351''
It has taken me days to find a way of contacting someone at Firefox to help an avid fan (Me) to get this far so I really hope you can help me.
I downloaded Firefox Aurora about 10 days ago but had a problem with my PC so I reformatted the drive “C” back to zero and now I can’t get Aurora back as it was.
It had the inspiring dark globe with a wonder of options to choose from but I now get the same globe with a great clean and fresh page to start with but a very annoying address that says only “about:home” can you please send me the correct address that should be showing and not a drop down that says “This Website does not supply identity information” If I download My favoured E-Mail client “Incredimail” It will take over Firefox with it’s horrid “MyStart” and the only way I can restore Firefox home page is if I have the correct address. Just encase you identify users by country I live in South Wales U.K.
Thank you
…Chris Thurlow…

It was normaly me who asked this Q the firt time but I was re-directed to ask again after filling in and joining the forum. The Q is not yet resolved. Give it time Firefox is worth waiting for.

I am trying to install "Awesome Screenshot" but could not be installed because Firefox (ver 4.0) cannot modify the needed file, and this addon is featured on the Firefox home page.

My OS is windows XP with sp2

This is Joel from the awesome screenshot dev team. Could you send us the path of your Firefox extension directory? We suspect the issue had to do with the character length of the local directory of an XP machine.
Thanks.

How can I reset the default search on the Firefox home page back to Google?

I recently had to uninstall the Yahoo toolbar forced on me without warning by an application, but this vestige seems to have crept back in

hello, you can try to use the [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/searchreset/ search reset addon].

A new video now present on my Firefox home page is causing the browser to crash on two computers. How do I remove it?

Just today, the problem started on my work laptop. When Firefox first opens everything is okay, whether the video pop-up window is there or not. However, if I then open a new tab and select my Firefox home page, about 80% of the time the browser crashes, asking for information to send to Support. When I reload Firefox, the offending tab does not go back tot he home page, but to a state prior to that.
I now find that my home desktop has the same problem. I can find no settings to prevent the video from displaying on the Firefox home page. I also get the impression that the video is some promotional item from Firefox.
I will now run manual virus scans, but I'm running Webroot on both systems, and they are scanned automatically. Any ideas? Frankly, I'm wondering if it's time to find a better browser.
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Brian

The default homepage has featured various animations for a long time now (world map, bouncing star, and so on). The method to disable them remains the same:
# Type about:config into the address bar and press Enter.
# To bypass the warning, press 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. Delete all the text so that the preference value is blank, then press 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.
# Type about:support into the address bar and press Enter.
# Click the Show Folder button.
# Open the storage folder, open the persistent folder inside that.
# Exit Firefox.
# Back in the Windows Explorer window, delete the '''moz-safe-about+home''' folder.

How do I find the HOME button to bring up the default home page?

I was on Windows Vista and now I have installed Windows 7. I had Firefox Sync working on Vista. I don't seem to be able to get it to work on Windows 7. I have gone thru the instructions on how to get it working on 7 but I don't know how to find the the Firefox Home page to click the Sync button. Also how do I find my recovery key?

Hi psimsic,
You can just type about:home into the address bar and hit enter to get to the default FF home page. You should look at the article [[I've lost my Firefox Sync account information - What to do]] for details on recovering your sync info.
Hopefully this helps!

The quick link button to my email account has disappeared from my Firefox home page. How can I get it back again ?

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Perhaps the button was on your Bookmarks Toolbar. Can you make sure that bar is displayed? You can turn toolbars on and off using any of these methods to display a toolbar list:
* right-click a blank area of the tab bar, or the "+" button on the tab bar
* "3-bar" menu button > Customize > Show/Hide Toolbars
* tap the Alt key to activate the classic menu bar temporarily, then View > Toolbars
Does that help?
Also, you can access your Hotmail account using http://hotmail.com/ and Microsoft will redirect you to the secure login page.

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