The home page snippets rotate every few weeks. In fact, if you reload the page a couple times, you might see a different one in the current rotation.

I understand you are looking for the simplest solution, and that is to use a completely different home page that doesn't have rotating snippets. It could be the page for the search site you most often use, or it could be a blank page. These articles have the steps for changing your home page:

• Startup, home page, tabs, and download settings
• How to set the home page

If you want a blank page, type or paste about:blank into the space for the home page. If you would like to use the page that appears when you open a new tab (Ctrl+t) then type or paste about:newtab into that space.

Hiding the snippets on the built-in home page can be done in a number of ways, some more complicated than others. The simplest method is to use an add-on to hide them. If you prefer that over changing your home page, I'll need to search a bit to pull up the details.

Note that this snippet is an animated GIF image, so you can set image.animation_mode to once to stop the animation after one cycle. Best is not to select none to prevent issues.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Animated_images

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

Thanks for the responses guys but I'm afraid you've missed the point.

jscher2000 - I don't want to use a completely different homepage or a blank page. I just want to get back to the original fox/globe logo. Advising me that the silliness rotates every few weeks is not at all helpful as is the suggestion that I waste my time constantly reloading the page only for me to see more of the crap I'm trying to get rid of.

cor-el - Similar to the above. I don't want to hide or freeze the stupid looking stick figures. I would like to get rid of them totally and go back to the original Firefox logo.

I genuinely do appreciate you trying to help but please......can you restrict any efforts to something that will produce an answer to the original question.

Hey Sooty842

from what I can tell there is no easy way to remove them. This would be the best way I think and its not simple unfortunetly.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1031945

Hope this helps Brad

The easiest way to get around that is to just set your own homepage and not use the "default" about:home page. See - How to set the home page Which you have already rejected.

You can use this UserStyle - https://userstyles.org/styles/104673/about-home-hide-snippets-and-hide-brand-logo - to hide the two sections of the about:home homepage that Mozilla sends messages and videos to when they feel the "need".

Many of us have disabled the changes to the top part [brandLogo portion] of the Firefox Start Page and turned off the advertising "snippets" [below the Search container] that Mozilla is using all the time now, so that we don't see that "stuff".

If you feel venturesome, here's how to "fix it". Type about:config in the Location Bar and hit Enter. Accept the "dragons" message to see the advanced prefs screen. Use the Search field at the top to enter the pref mentioned below.

You can set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string to stop your Firefox from retrieving "snippets" and brandLogo changes. Right-click that pref and select Modify then clear the Value for that pref in the box that appears, then click OK. That will also disable the "snippets" that appear below the Search container on the default homepage.

Then you need to open your Profile folder, via Help > Troubeshooting Information > Profile folder >> Show Folder button. Then close Firefox. With your Profile folder open and Firefox closed ("3-bar" Firefox menu button > Exit/Quit), wait minute or so, then delete the storage\moz-safe-about+home folder in the Firefox profile folder to remove the brandLogo and snippets stored in IndexedDB to make Firefox use the default brandLogo and a default snippet set.

Then restart Firefox for those changes to take effect.

If you should later change your mind about those modifications, you can reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref via the right-click context menu and use Reset to get the default value back to start using the storage\moz-safe-about+home folder again.

Many thanks for the responses guys.

Bradforth - You were right saying it wasn't simple. I was having a study of the link you supplied when a response came in from the ed-meister and, as his suggestion appeared to be the simpler of the two (or at least easier for my luddite brain to follow), I tried that first. All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

After printing off the excellent instructions, it worked first time.

Might it be worth putting this in the FAQ section for others to follow?

Anyway once again, my heartfelt thanks for preventing the early onset of madness :-)

Sooty842

Note that you can achieve the same with these steps can be done within Firefox and that do not require to go to the Firefox profile folder.

You can use these steps to remove downloaded snippets on the about:home page:

1. Modify the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref on the about:config page and clear its value to an empty string
2. Open the about:home page in a tab
3. Open Web Console in this tab (Firefox menu button or Tools > Web Developer)
   https://developer.mozilla.org/Tools/Web_Console
4. Run this command via the command prompt of the Web Console:
   gSnippetsMap.clear()
   this removes snippets stored in IndexedDB (\storage\persistent\moz-safe-about+home) and make Firefox use a default snippet set
5. Close the tab with the about:home page
6. Close and restart Firefox

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config