Disable animated fox
An animated fox has appeared on the firefox welcome screen. I merely want to disable the animation of the image. Preferably permanently and globally, so that no animations ever reappear on this page for any user.
Here is a similar question. That problem was fixed, but has now been reintroduced. https://support.mozilla.org/questions/933177
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This is the page about:home that now has an animated fox advertising Firefox OS.
I guess the powers that be have decided this is good advertising and have neglected to add an option to disable this.
The quickest solution is probably as last time to use a different homepage. (although for instance a google homepage may itself have an animation on it)
From /questions/933177#answer-355477
Easiest is to use another page as the home or search page until Mozilla removed that snippet.
- set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string
- reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref to the default via the right-click context menu.
- close Firefox
- delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox Profile Folder
- 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
If this is definitely causing problems with resources it may be appropriate to post in the closed bug Bug 774508 - [July Campaign] CSS Animations overloading CPU
If you just feel it is inappropriate for other reasons you could try filing a new bug requesting at least a method on the UI allowing these animations to be easily disabled.
There is also the option of providing feedback, but that is unlikely to get any action unless a massive number of comments are made
I think I solved the symptom based on the answers to: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/93317 by putting
#ffos-fox-animation-clip {display:none !important}
in "User Styles". I think "User Styles" is an add-on.
The actual problem won't be solved until somebody gets through to the people who are allowing these animations.
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Current Firefox version no longer use chromeappsstore.sqlite to store the snippets, so you need to remove the webappsstore.sqlite file instead to reset the snippets or use the SQLite Manager extension to clear the snippets entry.