Hi, please see - How to set the home page.

if you want your home page to be blank, type about:blank in Home Page.

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Thanks so much Scribe! But as I was going to follow your instructions, suddenly I got my old Firefox Home Page back! How it reappeared I’ll never know, but I'm pleased. The only problem is...in case I lose it again can you tell me how to bring it back please? Thanks. Or will they stop the old one altogether?

I nevertheless tried your suggestion of typing “about:blank” but it gave me a TOTALLY blank page without the search bar in the middle of the page, etc. I can't use that.

This new Mozilla Foundation Firefox makes me unhappy. One example (of many): when I followed instructions on getting rid of “ask.com” and keep Firefox as the Default Browser, the step that asks for clicking on the “Default” button...that button wasn’t there though I restarted and tried it a few more times!

Much later I still tried and tried other ways around and I thought I had finally found a way, but I just went to see whether it showed Firefox by clicking on “Use Current Pages”, and...no, it now showed this: “about:home|about:preferences”.

This, added to being difficult to get Support directly, it just makes it too frustrating! If you or anyone here could tell me how to step by step making Firefox the default browser I’ll appreciate it a lot!

Will they stop the old Firefox? Or is there a chance for me to keep it?  :) Sorry for this ranting.

P.S. What do you think of "Microsoft Edge"?

The default home page with the search bar is the built-in about:home page.

If you click "Use Current Pages" then all tabs that are currently open are set as multiple home pages, so you need to remove the pipe and the about:preferences and only leave about:home for the home page setting.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar and search for prefs that refer to ask.com. You can reset user set (bold) ask.com pref(s) prefs via the right-click context menu to the default value.

Thank you so much cor-el for the clear explanation! I went to Options, General Panel and removed the “about:references” leaving in only “about:home” as you so kindly suggested, but...what is the “pipe”? Also, I wonder why it doesn’t say Mozilla Firefox etc. on that page instead of about:home, to simplify matters???  :)

I have opened the about:config page via the search bar in the center of the page (as when I tried it in the top address bar, as shown in a sample, it said “This might void your warranty”. about:config produced a number of files, some referring to Preferences but not to ask.com (is ask.com part of Firefox then?).

So sorry I don’t know what this means: “You can reset user set (bold) ask.com pref(s) prefs via the right-click context menu to the default value.”

The pipe is the vertical bar (|) that is used to separate multiple page in the home page setting.

• about:home|about:preferences

Hi, 'Ask' is nothing to do with Firefox, and may be changing your settings, so if that is on your machine, please read and try working through - Remove Ask Toolbar and Ask.com Search by Malware Tips.

Note that not all removal programs will detect all malware, so you may need to run several or all of them.

After removal you may need to reset your home page and search, which you can do by running the add-on SearchReset.