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How do I get rid of your Invasive un firefox like declare your indepence tab?

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nvyguy
nvyguy

Since I got an upgrade, two tabs now open, one stating declare your independence. I find it very Microsoftish to force this on people and i cannot set my tab back to what I want. I loved firefox but this is wholly unacceptable. Remove it or I will go to chrome

Since I got an upgrade, two tabs now open, one stating declare your independence. I find it very Microsoftish to force this on people and i cannot set my tab back to what I want. I loved firefox but this is wholly unacceptable. Remove it or I will go to chrome

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hello nvyguy, this is just a temporary redesign of the homepage for the occasion and will be gone in a few days again anyway. if you don't like it you can change the homepage to any different site of your choosing: How to set the home page

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philipp
philipp
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hello nvyguy, this is just a temporary redesign of the homepage for the occasion and will be gone in a few days again anyway. if you don't like it you can change the homepage to any different site of your choosing: How to set the home page

cor-el
cor-el
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If you prefer not to see the snippets on the about:home page or otherwise experience problems with a snippet then you can set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string on the about:config 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. You need to close and restart Firefox after changing the value of the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

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)