My firefox home page is gone and something else is in its place

When I was downloading a game, it gave me a new home page. My firefox home page is gone. I'd like it back. I won't mess around with those game things again.

Firefox determines your current locale and presents pages in the local language.
#You may need to (re)set the pref general.useragent.locale to the preferred language (e.g. en-US or en-GB) on the about:config page. See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/General.useragent.locale
#*You can open the about:config page via the location bar, like you open a web site.
#*Use the Filter bar at the top of that page to quickly locate the pref.
#*If you travel frequently to other language locales, you may want to try this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1333/
#If you have the Firefox user interface (menu bar) in the wrong language then you can get the language version of your choice here: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
#*Reinstalling Firefox won't affect the data in your profile folder (e.g. bookmarks and cookies and passwords), but make sure that you do not choose to delete files in the profile folder in the uninstall window.
#If the Google or Yahoo page is in the wrong language then see:
#*Google: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=873
#*Yahoo: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/homepage/troubleshooting/troubleshoot-02.html

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  • My home page is replaced with something else.

    My Firefox home page is gone and is replaced with something else. How do I get it back?

    Type the following in your address/awesome bar:
    about:config
    Click "I'll be careful I promise" in the dialog box that pops up
    Type "browser.startup.homepage" in the Filter Box
    Right click the value column and click "Modify",
    Enter the desired home page URL in the dialog box and hit OK.
    Click the home button and you shall be directed to your desired homepage

  • After uploading Firefox 18 the AOL Home Page has replaced my Firefox Home Page and I want to remove AOL Home Page

    AOL has muscled in and replaced my Firefox home page as above with theirs without permission.
    How do I permanently remove the AOL home page to the trash can?
    And, if possible, give AOL a "rasberry" for their rudeness?
    Thanks <<<< Peter Barrett

    With the recent upgrade of Firefox, AOL has insisted to be the homepage. It does not matter whether you change it to be something else. After you change your homepage, somehow when you have to open another tab, aol will pop saying you have changed your homepage, but will not allow you to click anything until you say yes to returning it to aol. This IS so frustrating. I can't believe Mozilla is allowing it or does not know how to counter it.

  • How do I open multiple Firefox home pages? I want all of my different Firefox email accounts open at the same time. I recently upgraded to Win7 and now I have to close and open Firefox to access another email acount!

    I want 3 separate, distinct Firefox home pages for each of my 3 email accounts to be open at the same time.

    Questions are typically followed by a question mark. My answer answered your question.
    Firefox doesn't do email, so there are no "Firefox email accounts". If you are accessing "email" with Firefox, you are using web mail. Some web mail services don't allow for direct access, they want their users to access their email from a "portal" or "main" page and will re-direct any attempt to load an "internal" web site page back to the main page.
    As far as loading 3 different web mail accounts at the same time, if they are in the same domain it won't work on Firefox without a Firefox addon. http://br.mozdev.org/multifox/
    IOW, if those three email accounts all with Yahoo, without that add-on you would have to logon to each email account separately and log out of the first before logging into the 2nd. Then log out of the 2nd before logging into the 3rd. Firefox isn't capable of having multiple session cookies for simultaneous logon's to the same server. That add-on provides that "multiple sessions cookies" feature.

  • The HOME BUTTON in the top row of Firefox does not bring me back to Firefox Home Page. A message comes up saying that HOME BUTTON URL is not valid and cannot be processed. Why?

    Whenever I use the Firefox browser to go to another site, Ican't get back to Firefox home page by simply pressing the Home button at the top left line of the page.

    Open the page that you want as the home page in a tab and drag the tab or the favicon from the left end of the location bar on the toolbar Home button.
    *https://support.mozilla.com/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page

  • My Firefox home page doesn't look the same since I installed and then uninstalled "Inbox".

    My home page used to show the Firefox logo (fox encirling the globe) with a Google search bar below. Now I just have the logo and a searchbar, but the search bar doesn't work. I enter a keyord, hit enter and nothing happens.
    The only change I made was I inadvertently installed (and then uninstalled) "Inbox".
    I loved my old standard, plain Firefox home page and I miss it terribly. Please help.

    You can try to delete the file chromeappsstore.sqlite in the Firefox Profile Folder.
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
    *Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder

  • Firefox will install, and open the FIREFOX home page--------------but then is unable to download anything else-WHY

    Win7 on DELL XPS9000-----64bit. Successfully run IE, Safari and Chrome. Download Mozilla Firefox 17 (and other versions before 17)
    Firefox home page loads----------but nothing else loads! i.e., can not access other pages, such as nbcnews, etc.----Nothing.
    My laptop runs firefox nicely; I like firefox--------but I can't wait for the thing to never load.
    any suggestions will be appreciated.

    A possible cause is security software (firewall,anti-virus) that blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
    Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
    See:
    *https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Server+not+found
    *https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firewalls

  • 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.
    Thanks,
    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.

  • MAC OS X 10.6.8 - Firefox 9.0.1 - On my screen a larger than life picture of Firefox home page. Web pages present with an annoying overlap. How do I go sort it out?...PAT

    MAC OS X 10.6.8 - Firefox 9.0.1 - On my screen a larger than life picture of Firefox home page. Web pages present with an annoying overlap. How do I go sort it out?...PAT

    You could have changed the zoom settings somehow. Try going to the View menu, down to Zoom and select ''Reset''.

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

    When I used to click onto the Internet Firefox icon to get onto my home page, the top of the screen gave me a click on-link direct to my hotmail email a/c. For some reason that has disappeared. I can still do it via the Internet Explorer icon, but the settings are different, and the system does not accept text as readily as it did when using the Firefox. Could someone please tell me how to (in words a techno phobe can understand and follow) insert this link back onto the Firefox home page. Many thanks...

    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
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    Also, you can access your Hotmail account using http://hotmail.com/ and Microsoft will redirect you to the secure login page.

  • How can I get rid of this black background on my firefox home page?

    yesterday the background on my firefox home page turned black. Where is the setting that will allow me to change it back to white?

    That may have been part of the SOPA protest on some sites yesterday.
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
    Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache.
    *Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
    *Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
    *Press "Cmd + Shift + R" (MAC)

  • FireFox home page does not always display correctly, hence I cannot do anything

    On my Dell laptop the FireFox home page does not always fully display. When this happens I cannot access several web sites and some that I can do not display correctly either. On some occasions everything works correctly.
    I have 2 Dell Inspiron laptops the same except one is running Vista (the one that does not always work) and one running Windows 7 (this one has no problems).

    On my Dell laptop the FireFox home page does not always fully display. When this happens I cannot access several web sites and some that I can do not display correctly either. On some occasions everything works correctly.
    I have 2 Dell Inspiron laptops the same except one is running Vista (the one that does not always work) and one running Windows 7 (this one has no problems).

  • I have somehow deleted the tool bar from the Firefox home page. How do I recover it?

    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).

  • With version 5, on starting get a box "checking compatibility of add-ons" then to Firefox home page not my home page--What's happening?

    Just installed version 5. As above I get the box then it goes to Firefox home page not my home page. I've updated and/or disabled every add-on or extension and it made no difference. I am in a university behind a tough firewall. I'd love to go back to version 4 but that isn't available.

    Disabled add-ons will still be checked and can still be updated.
    I don't know why you are continuously getting the message, you should only get it when there is a version change.
    You can try solutions in https://support.mozilla.com/questions/817681 but you had better make a list of what extensions you had disabled first, because all of your extensions will be enabled when you delete/rename those files in your profile. You can use about:support to get a list of your extensions. (renaming is safer than deleting).

  • 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.

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