How to have a home page stored, but have Firefox open a blank page by default?
Hello there,
I used to have Firefox configured so it always displayed a blank tab when I opened it.
I could then use the address bar, bookmarks or history to search / navigate as required or, if I clicked on my Home button, five tabs would open and display the five pages which I store as my home pages.
This was a brill set up and a very convenient feature to have, but it no longer seems to be available.
I seem to be able to set a new instance of Firefox to either display a blank page or use the Custom URLs feature, as opposed to both.
If I am missing a way that I can still accomplish this, then please let me know, if this is no longer a feature, please can it be re-instated?
Thanks,
Dan
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Hello dandan76,
You can do that by toggling a preference on the "about:config" page :
Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)
Type in the search bar : browser.startup.page
And choose the value that you want :
0 = blank page
1 = your home page(s) (= default)
2 = the last page viewed in Firefox
3 = previous session windows and tabs
Then close and restart Firefox.
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Hello dandan76,
You can do that by toggling a preference on the "about:config" page :
Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)
Type in the search bar : browser.startup.page
And choose the value that you want :
0 = blank page
1 = your home page(s) (= default)
2 = the last page viewed in Firefox
3 = previous session windows and tabs
Then close and restart Firefox.
Brilliant! Thank you so much...
I'd completely forgotten about about:config and how many useful it can be.
dandan76 said
Brilliant! Thank you so much...
My pleasure !
I'd completely forgotten about about:config and how many useful it can be.
Most people don't even know about the about:config page .....