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How do I stop the annoying bouncy star on the start page

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It drives me nuts!

It drives me nuts!

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Mozilla.org changes its home page now and then. For now, you could always use about:blank.

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I hide that part of the about:home page with this userContent.css code. The down side is that it also hides the Firefox logo, too.

@-moz-document url(about:home) {
#brandLogo { display:none !important; }
}

http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserContent.css

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If you prefer not to see snippets on the about:home page then you can set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string on the about:config page.

Delete the "storage\moz-safe-about+home" folder in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed to remove snippets stored in IndexedDB and make Firefox use a default set.

You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:


Some easier instructions:

  • Set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string on the about:config page
  • Open about:home page in a tab
  • Open Web Console in this tab (Firefox menu button > Developer)
  • Run this command via the command prompt: gSnippetsMap.clear()
  • Close the tab with the about:home page
  • Close and restart Firefox

Athraithe ag cor-el ar

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thank you so much! I would rather have a blank page until they provide a home page without the annoying stars. thanks again.

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That was no answer

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Did you try my above posted steps to disable loading new snippets and remove already downloaded snippets?

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Changing my browser. Firefox has just shown how crass it has become by not creating a one-click way to remove what it should realise is a distracting annoyance! Thanks anyway!

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Changing my browser. Firefox has just shown how crass it has become by not creating a one-click way to remove what it should realise is a distracting annoyance! Thanks anyway!

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You can easily set another page as the home page by opening the page in a tab and dragging the tab on the Home button at the right-end of the Navigation Toolbar.