
When I open a new page it doesn't go to my home page but a Firefox page labeled Important News. How do I get to my home page?
The page that opens says:
"Changes to your Firefox profile" and "Sign in or create a Firefox Account." I have signed in several times now but the page keeps appearing.
Thanks.
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Hi dhgold, yes, you can reset
browser.startup.homepage
No problem. There should be a little button at the right end of the row to reset, or you can double click and paste in your preferred address,
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Hi dhgold, you get that page if you either
- Launch a new window (Ctrl+n)
- Click the Home button or press Alt+Home on the keyboard
Or is the problem with a new tab page (Ctrl+t) ?
If it's the home page, please check your setting on the Options page in case it somehow changed: How to set the home page.
If I launch a new tab I get a blank page with a small Google search space at the top, which is fine.
If I hit the Home button I get a blank page with a big Google space in the middle, which is great, that is just what I want.
However, if I go to the menu at upper right and click on New Window I get the "Sign in or create a Firefox Account" which I do not want.
Does that clarify the situation?
Wow, usually New Window and Home give you exactly the same page or pages. I don't understand how you're getting that.
Hi, I followed your advice on another post:
Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)
Type in the search bar browser.startup.homepage
and I got to this:
{"message_id":"WNP_MOMENTS_1","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/welcome/1/","expire":1583374274562}
which was next to:
browser.startup.homepage_override.once
Could that be the problem and, if so, can I delete it without causing problems? Thanks.
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Hi dhgold, yes, you can reset
browser.startup.homepage
No problem. There should be a little button at the right end of the row to reset, or you can double click and paste in your preferred address,
Are you part of a personalization study perhaps? You can check your studies page to see whether one of those might be the source of the unexpected home page. This article has more info: About Studies.
Great!!! I guess I got there in a roundabout way but deleting that line worked and I now am getting the home page I wanted. Thank you very, very much.
....... Also, I checked and I wasn't involved in any studies.