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When I click and open my Firefox browser ,it always opens to Firefox welcome page ,NOT my google search page , which is my home page , how can I fix this , I have to always have to close FF before I can search !!??

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Can you help me figure out how to stop Firefox from opening to welcome page / updated window, I have to close that before I can use my google search page ,which is my homepage !!

Can you help me figure out how to stop Firefox from opening to welcome page / updated window, I have to close that before I can use my google search page ,which is my homepage !!

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See this article for some suggestions: Firefox says it's just updated every time it starts - how to fix

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved and How to fix preferences that won't save

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Gosh that was a real maze of info! Lets try this gain , I have windows 7 I use FF as my main Browser and have always been able to maintain it myself, I'm not a beginner and would just like info only to this new latest upgrade to 3.6 version , this only started when I did that . Can you just be specific to this version 3.6.12 ?

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You can start by checking the Home page setting to see if that still links to the Google Home page (http://www.google.com/firefox)

  • Tools > Options > General > Startup: Home page

You can also check the startup setting just above the home page setting.


If the home page setting isn't correct and changing it doesn't last if you close and reopen Firefox then you need to check if the file prefs.js in the Firefox Profile Folder isn't corrupted.