Removing suggestion on firefox startpage
Hello,
I would like to know if it's possible to disable all those suggestion on the firefox startpage (about:home) Right now i got that "try firefox Hello" that's killing me a little bit inside everyday. I would like to have the regular firefox startpage (just the fox with the globe), without ads.
Is this possible ?
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You can use this UserStyle to hide both the "snippets" and the "BrandLogo" parts of the default homepage. The Firefox "BrandLogo" will be hidden entirely, along with the messages that are rotated into that area every month or so for a few days. https://userstyles.org/styles/104673/about-home-hide-snippets-and-hide-brand-logo Note: You'll need the Stylish extension to be able to use UserStyles. It is available from a link on that page.
If you do want to see the Firefox logo at the top in the "BrandLogo" section of the page and just want to block the messages that are rotated into that area, that is a little more complicated.
1. Type about:config in the Location Bar and hit Enter. Accept the "dragons" message to see the advanced prefs screen. Use the Search field at the top to enter the pref mentioned below.
2. You can set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string to stop your Firefox from retrieving "snippets" and brandLogo changes. Right-click that pref and select Modify then clear the Value for that pref in the box that appears, then click OK. That will also disable the "snippets" that appear below the Search container on the default homepage.
3. Then you need to open your Profile folder, via Help > Troubeshooting Information > Profile folder >> Show Folder button. Then close Firefox. With your Profile folder open and Firefox closed ("3-bar" Firefox menu button > Exit/Quit), wait minute or so, then delete the storage\moz-safe-about+home folder in the Firefox profile folder to remove the brandLogo and snippets stored in IndexedDB to make Firefox use the default brandLogo and a default snippet set.
4. Then restart Firefox for those changes to take effect.
If you should later change your mind about those modifications, you can reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref via the right-click context menu and use Reset to get the default value back to start using the storage\moz-safe-about+home folder again.
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You can use this UserStyle to hide both the "snippets" and the "BrandLogo" parts of the default homepage. The Firefox "BrandLogo" will be hidden entirely, along with the messages that are rotated into that area every month or so for a few days. https://userstyles.org/styles/104673/about-home-hide-snippets-and-hide-brand-logo Note: You'll need the Stylish extension to be able to use UserStyles. It is available from a link on that page.
If you do want to see the Firefox logo at the top in the "BrandLogo" section of the page and just want to block the messages that are rotated into that area, that is a little more complicated.
1. Type about:config in the Location Bar and hit Enter. Accept the "dragons" message to see the advanced prefs screen. Use the Search field at the top to enter the pref mentioned below.
2. You can set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string to stop your Firefox from retrieving "snippets" and brandLogo changes. Right-click that pref and select Modify then clear the Value for that pref in the box that appears, then click OK. That will also disable the "snippets" that appear below the Search container on the default homepage.
3. Then you need to open your Profile folder, via Help > Troubeshooting Information > Profile folder >> Show Folder button. Then close Firefox. With your Profile folder open and Firefox closed ("3-bar" Firefox menu button > Exit/Quit), wait minute or so, then delete the storage\moz-safe-about+home folder in the Firefox profile folder to remove the brandLogo and snippets stored in IndexedDB to make Firefox use the default brandLogo and a default snippet set.
4. Then restart Firefox for those changes to take effect.
If you should later change your mind about those modifications, you can reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref via the right-click context menu and use Reset to get the default value back to start using the storage\moz-safe-about+home folder again.
This worked perfectly.
Thank you very much