I want to change the background, but I don't seem to see how.
I have spent the worser part of the past 3 or 4 hours trying to change the background and add a widget or two. I just can't seem to find a way to do that. Please don't tell me that Firefox is so lame that I can't do this.
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So, you want to change the homepage. See - How to set the home page
Or maybe you want the New Tab page as your homepage? Open about:newtab and set that as your homepage using the information in the above support article.
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What type of "background"?
If you are referring to "themes", see this. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/
My home page is now Firefox. I see a little fox curled up, probably ashamed to show his face because his creation is so lame. I want to put a different picture there as a background, like a seashore. If I put it in a tab, then it won't be there when I first launch Firefox. And even if I did put the seashore in the tab, what good does that do me; when I open up the tab which has my seashore background, then I won't see the entry box for searching.
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So, you want to change the homepage. See - How to set the home page
Or maybe you want the New Tab page as your homepage? Open about:newtab and set that as your homepage using the information in the above support article.
If I create a tab that does absolutely nothing except look pretty, how does that help me.
For the new tab page, see:
- New Tab Tools: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/
I don't want a new tab. I want to make the little fox go away and replace her/him with a different picture.
And there are so many other things that I want to do, but so far I just haven't figured out FireFox as a browser/homepage.
See the #brandLogo rules in this file:
- chrome://browser/content/abouthome/aboutHome.css
You can open this file via the location/address bar (chrome is a protocol; no connection with Google Chrome).
Add your own CSS code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line.
Use the !important flag to override existing rules.
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */
#brandLogo {
background-image: url("about-logo.png") !important;
}
The customization files userChrome.css (user interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the Firefox profile folder.
Place the new image in the chrome folder with the userChrome.css file
Why would anyone want to protect their brand so desperately; I thought that FireFox was open source; those lines of code would be characteristic of a capitalist attitude. This doesn't really help much. I am not going fiddle with the code just over the sweet little fox.
What I really need is to be able to put widgets on my home page. I see that I might be able to do an RSS feed; I haven't finished trying to put it in yet. But I notice that I look for "bookmarks" in the Add-On "catelog" and I get nothing.