firefox launches its homepage and my homepage at the same time
I went to about:config and found browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone had 33.1.1 as the reason two startup pages were launching. I clicked modify and removed the 33.1.1 but it still put itself back in. I then saw browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID clicked Modify and cleared the number but it put itself back. This just started happening and now this appears in the address bar: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/33.1.1/whatsnew/?oldversion=23.0.1
Ordinarily this never happens but always starts happening after I update to the newest version.
Thank you in advance for your time and attention in this matter.
Sincerely,
Christopher Frank
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hello christopher, this might happen when firefox is not able to properly save preferences in its profile folder. please try this: Click the menu button ≡ and then click help ? > troubleshooting information > profile folder - "show folder". then a new window will open up. in this window look out for a file named user.js (it might be used to overwrite your custom settings). in case it is present , delete or rename this file and restart firefox afterwards.
for more information and other steps please also see: How to fix preferences that won't save
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Выбранное решение
hello christopher, this might happen when firefox is not able to properly save preferences in its profile folder. please try this: Click the menu button ≡ and then click help ? > troubleshooting information > profile folder - "show folder". then a new window will open up. in this window look out for a file named user.js (it might be used to overwrite your custom settings). in case it is present , delete or rename this file and restart firefox afterwards.
for more information and other steps please also see: How to fix preferences that won't save
Dear philipp
Thank you for your immediate reply; I followed the steps you suggested and they worked perfectly. Previously I had seen similar suggestions which also said "look out for a file named user.js" but unfortunately I understood it to mean a folder, so when I saw user.js I did not delete it.
Thank you again.