How do I stop the Firefox Updated tab from loading every time I launch Firefox?

Tools / Options / Advance / Update

and uncheck whatever you don't want.

Hi,

I hope this article will help you out of this annoying problem.

Kinds regards, Joren

Sorry, I misunderstood your question. Here's the correct answer, please read this article:

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+has+just+updated+tab+shows+each+time+you+start+Firefox

There was already nothing checked on that tab of the options dialog box.

The home page is set to http://ask.com

This setting hasn't changed since before the update was applied (I did check it).

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved and How to fix preferences that won't save

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