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How do I stop Mozilla to start automatically on startup?

david613
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Hello!

When I start working on my computer, Mozilla starts automatically.

This was not the case before. What changed and how can I stop that?

Thank you for your help.

David

Hello! When I start working on my computer, Mozilla starts automatically. This was not the case before. What changed and how can I stop that? Thank you for your help. David

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Shadow110
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No idea. Please consider turning on send info to Mozilla before posting a question. This helps us help you. As I have no info from your system that would help see things that cause issues.

press the windows-key + R a window will open Then copy/paste %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup into the box and click ok. See if Firefox.exe is listed. If so delete it.

Reboot to see if is fixed if you removed it.

Note : Firefox 56.0.2 is current release https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/ Full Version Installer Note : Firefox 57 Quantum release date Nov 14th https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/ Note : Legacy Extensions will be disabled and or removed.

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

cor-el
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Did you check the Windows startup folder?

Does it has effect if you unset Firefox as the default browser and set another browser as the default browser?

david613
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cor-el said

Did you check the Windows startup folder?

Yes I did and nothing there.

Does it has effect if you unset Firefox as the default browser and set another browser as the default browser?

I did (Firefox was my default browser) and it worked. Does that mean that there is no way to have Firefox as a default browser and not have it starts by itself?

david613
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Pkshadow said

No idea. Please consider turning on send info to Mozilla before posting a question. This helps us help you.

That was turned on already. I don't know why it didn't work.

press the windows-key + R a window will open Then copy/paste %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup into the box and click ok. See if Firefox.exe is listed. If so delete it.

Nothing was there.

I followed the advice from cor-el and it did work, but I would like to keep Firefox as my default browser without having it starting by itself.

David

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Hi David, it's not normal for Firefox to start up automatically with Windows.

This is another tool to inspect what happens at startup across a range of causes:

Autoruns for Windows: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx