how do i turn off the spinning object on the start page?
next to the box for the search terms, i have been dizzied by a spinning object, sometimes a teddy bear. i want to avoid that. how do I do that?
now, after I started this process of asking how to stop the object from spinning, i opened a new start page and the object is not spinning.
now a new start page shows it spinning again. it may be a dog.
i hope you can help. this spinning thing is not good for my state of mind. i kind of blame it on radiorage, which I may or may not have been able to completely cleanse my computer of.
thanks
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The proposed solution says it does not work for my platform, Mac.
Now the cutsie distraction is a cat swatting something. This is all so microsoft. Can anyone save me from this?
If you Command+r reload you may get one of the non-animated ones. They cycle.
For suggestions about hiding or removing those "snippets" below the search box, please see the last two posts in this thread: How do I remove Webmaker banner on search page.
If you prefer not to see snippets on the about:home page 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 reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref via the right-click context menu to the default value to re-enable the snippets.
- about:config page: browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl