If you try to Reset Firefox, does it work better? Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings

There's a discussion about that here - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/933177?s=Olympic+flame&r=0&as=s

The easiest way is to change your Homepage.

You can set browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl to an empty string to disable loading new snippets and delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file to clear the currently stored snippets.

You need to reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref via the right-click context menu to the default on the about:config page and close and restart Firefox to restore the about:home page to its default.

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

1. Open the about:config page via the location bar
2. Type in the Filter bar: mstone
3. Right-click the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone line and select: Reset
4. Close and restart Firefox

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

• Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

Thanks to all of you for responding. I appreciate your suggestions. At the same time, I just want FIREFOX TO REMOVE THE OLYMPIC FLAME which serves no purpose but to be annoying.

Is a cutesy moving flame really serving any purpose? NOOOOO!!!!

See

• bug 777784 - Olympics logo in about:home get my CPU overloaded because of animated (moving) css (image)

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