twakulinski said

before the most recent update my starting page had everything from latest new, sports, entertainment, weather, etc. now all I have is the fire fox search box. how do i get it back

See - How to set the home page

If you don't remember which website you were using as your home page...

During your update, do you recall using the Refresh feature? This could come up as a prompt saying that Firefox is performing poorly and you could speed it up by restoring some default settings. If you approve that, an Old Firefox Data folder appears on your desktop with your old settings. Do you see anything like that?

If so, we could suggest how to research your old home page. For example, it might have been "My Yahoo" or another customizable page. Or it might have been something generated by an add-on.