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Disable "What's new with Firefox" page

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Ever since the "What's new with Firefox" page contained an ad for a movie, I want to disable it as I find it objectionable that a decision to include advertising on that page was made. How does one disable this page from being displayed after Firefox is updated and restarted?

Ever since the "What's new with Firefox" page contained an ad for a movie, I want to disable it as I find it objectionable that a decision to include advertising on that page was made. How does one disable this page from being displayed after Firefox is updated and restarted?

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https://kb.mozillazine.org/Startup.homepage_override_url makes startup.homepage_override_url sound extremely promising when set to ignore. I simulated an update by modifying browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID and browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone but got no luck with ignore (tried to navigate to http://ignore). However, about:blank does the trick.

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Hello! Try this and see if it works: Open a New Tab>> Type in about:config and enter>> Click Accept the Risk and Continue>> Search browser.messaging-system.whatsNewPanel.enabled>> Set it to false by double-clicking it Does it help?

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Hello! Try this and see if it works: Open a New Tab>> Type in about:config and enter>> Click Accept the Risk and Continue>> Search browser.messaging-system.whatsNewPanel.enabled>> Set it to false by double-clicking it Does it help?

Sounded promising, but I gave it a try on another computer that hasn't had the updates yet and the page is still displayed after restarting Firefox.

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browser.messaging-system.whatsNewPanel.enabled is about a whats new pop-up panel and not about the welcome page you get when Firefox has updated.

That might be about these prefs that get changed when Firefox updates to a first run page.

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https://kb.mozillazine.org/Startup.homepage_override_url makes startup.homepage_override_url sound extremely promising when set to ignore. I simulated an update by modifying browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID and browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone but got no luck with ignore (tried to navigate to http://ignore). However, about:blank does the trick.