How to remove the home page in the browser. How to remove the start page

Want to change the start page in Mozilla Firefox, but it doesn't change? Would you like to see the site you need on the main page? Next we will talk about how to configure the browser at your discretion.

How to make a start page in Mozilla

The start (start) page is displayed immediately after launching the browser. On it you can see the home or blank page, as well as previously open tabs.

To customize the Firefox start page with Mozilla's built-in resources, open the menu at the top right and go to Settings.

In the window that opens, make the “Basic” tab active and pay attention to the “When Firefox starts” item:

Show home page.
Show blank page.
Last opened tabs.

The names speak for themselves, so we will not go into their description. For greater clarity, see the following figure.

Once you have made the necessary changes, click OK for them to take effect.

There are other ways to customize the Mozilla Firefox start page - using add-ons, let's look at one of them.

Speed Dial FVD Add-on

A tool that displays a list of selected sites on the Mozilla Firefox start page. With its help, you can customize dils (visual bookmarks) and change the appearance of the browser interface.

To install this add-on, go to the Mozilla menu and select the “Add-ons” section. Then open the “Get Add-ons” tab, type Speed Dial FVD in the search bar and press Enter.

You will find the Speed Dial extension, click the “Install” button and follow the prompts of Mozilla Firefox.

This is what the Mozilla Firefox home page might look like with the extension installed and configured.

How to change the home page in Mozilla Firefox

The Mozilla home page opens in the browser after clicking the button with the “house” icon. It is used to quickly navigate to the desired site.

There are two ways to set up your home page in Mozilla, both of which do not require installing any extensions. Let's look at them in order.

The first and easiest way is to drag the open tab onto the house icon, as shown in the following image.

Then, to set this page as your home page, confirm the action by clicking “Yes”.

The second way is through the Mozilla settings. Open your browser settings and go to the “General” tab, just like you did on the start page.

Near the inscription “Home Page” you can enter your URL address or use the buttons below:

Use current pages.
Use a bookmark.
Restore to default.

It is clearly shown in the following picture.

Want to set up multiple home pages? Then open each of them in a separate tab, then in the settings click the “Use current pages” button. They will open in different tabs after clicking the Home button.

The home page in Firefox does not change - what to do?

Sometimes Firefox settings do not change or are reset to the original settings that do not suit you. This may happen due to software you installed on third-party sites, programs that include the Firefox toolbar, or viruses.

Removing someone else's toolbar that changes the search and home page of Mozilla Firefox

These recommendations will be useful for users who want to remove the toolbar Ask, Utorrent, Somoto, SweetIM, seeearch, incredibar, searchqu, MyStart and others. There are several solutions to this problem. First, let's look at Firefox's cleanup feature, which resets the browser to factory settings.

Cleaning function - reset settings and add-ons

In the address bar of the Mozilla Firefox browser, type the following command and press Enter: about:support. In the window that opens, click the “Clean Firefox” button.

Then confirm your intentions. This will remove your additions and changes you made to the settings, and will restore default values, as if you were starting from scratch.

Firefox will close and the cleanup process will begin. Upon completion, a window with a report will be displayed - a list of imported information. Click the "Finish" button and the browser will open.

Please note, this function will remove:

History of web surfing.
Bookmarks.
Passwords.
Cookies.
Open windows and tab groups.
Personal dictionary.
Information for automatically filling out forms.
Extensions and themes.
Download log.
Security settings.
Social functions.

Mozilla won't start - find the Firefox cleanup button in the browser's safe mode.

Attention! Do not confuse Firefox and Windows safe mode - they are different things.

To launch Mozila in safe mode, press the Shift key and click on the Fireforks shortcut, as if you were running it normally.

In the window that opens, click “Run in Safe Mode” or “Clean Firefox.” The second button restores the default settings, click the first.

The browser will launch with extensions disabled, hardware acceleration disabled, and toolbar settings reset.

Test Mozilla Firefox in Safe Mode. If your problem still occurs, it is not caused by browser extensions or the installed theme. Otherwise, when problems do not arise, they may be caused by extensions, the Mozilla theme, or hardware acceleration.

To exit Safe Mode, close the browser and launch it again without the Shift key.

To disable hardware acceleration:

Open the Mozilla menu and select the “Settings” section.
Select the "Advanced" panel, and in it the "General" tab.
Uncheck the box next to “Use hardware acceleration when possible.”
Save your changes.

The problem is solved - it means hardware acceleration is to blame. You can update your PC's graphics drivers or run your browser without this feature.

To return to the original theme:

Open the Firefox menu and select Add-ons.
Go to the Appearance tab.
Select the default theme and click "Enable"
Restart your browser.

The problem has been resolved - the reason is in the installed theme, if not - let's dig further.

To disable all extensions:

Go to the Fireforks menu – “Add-ons” section.
Select the Extensions panel.
Disable all existing extensions.
Restart Firefox.

When the browser starts, extensions will be disabled. Check if your problem is noticeable. It’s not there – it’s a matter of extensions. Activate the add-ons one at a time to identify the source of the problem. Found - remove or update the extension, due to which the search and home page in Mozilla changes.

Firefox home page does not change - how to fix it?

Does Mozilla Firefox start page appear incorrectly when you launch the browser? Check the Mozilla shortcut. Some programs can change its properties so that after launching the browser, the page of a third-party application, affiliate program, or other site that you do not need opens.

Right-click the Firefox shortcut and select Properties.
On the “Shortcut” tab, in the “Object” field, only the following should be written:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

and nothing else. Of course, if the browser was installed in a different directory than the default one, the path will be different.
If a web address is added to the “Object” field, delete it and click OK. Also, you can completely remove this shortcut and create a new one from the folder with the installed browser.

We return browser settings if they are not saved

The following guide to action may solve your problem of Firefox page not changing and settings not being saved. There is nothing complicated in the steps described below, although you will have to edit some browser configuration files.

Some settings are not saved

Some programs may force Firefox to use specific settings, and you will not be able to change them in the usual ways, like this:

Creative ZenCast changes the Firefox agent using Java. The solution is to uninstall Creative ZenCast.
McAfee antivirus privacy service disables (blocks) pop-ups in the browser. To disable pop-up blocking, open the Mazila menu - select “Settings” - “Content” panel. Uncheck the "Block pop-up windows" checkbox.
Norton 360 enables Firefox's privacy wipe feature, which overrides the browser's privacy settings to prevent cookies, browsing history, and other personal data from being saved between sessions.
Some third-party toolbars change the Mozilla home page and search options. You can reset them using the special SearchReset add-on.

If you do not have the programs described above installed, and your browser settings are not saved. Then you will have to edit the User.js configuration file. There's nothing complicated about it. It's done like this.

Open your profile folder by going to your browser menu and clicking on Help (the question mark icon). In the tab that opens, select “Problem Solving Information.”
On the next page, in the “Application Information” section, click on the “Show Folder” button.
Close the Mozilla Firefox browser.
In the folder that opened in step 3, find the user.js file and run it in . If you don't have a user.js file, these recommendations won't help you.
Delete the lines in user.js with the settings that need to be changed. You can delete all lines, then all settings will change.
Save and close the user.js file.
Launch the Mazila Firefox browser. Now the settings in it should change.

Your version of Firefox may have added a program configuration file that blocks changes to some settings or prevents them from being saved. In this case, completely remove the browser from your computer and reinstall it.

No parameters or settings are saved

If the steps described above do not solve your problem, and when you start the program, you constantly see a tab with the message Firefix has been updated. Most likely, the file that the browser uses to save settings is damaged or blocked.

Solving the problem with a locked settings file:

Open your profile folder. To do this, go to the browser menu and click on Help (the icon with a question mark). In the new tab, click on “Information to solve the problem.”
In the Application Details section, find the Show Folder button and click it.
Close your browser.
In the folder that opens, find the prefs.js file, if there is one, then prefs.js.moztmp.
Right-click on these files and go to their “Properties” in the context menu.
Make sure that in the attributes of each of them there is no checkbox next to “Read Only”. If necessary (correct), remove it.
Delete all prefs-n.js files where n is a number, for example, prefs-1.js
Find and delete the Invalidprefs.js file.
Restart your browser, the settings should now be saved.

The settings file is damaged, what should I do?

The settings file may be damaged; we have already described above how to find it. Delete prefs.js, Mozilla Firefox will create another one.

Attention! By deleting the prefs.js file you will lose custom settings in many of your extensions.

Deleting settings files:

Find prefs.js and if there is prefs.js.moztmp, delete these files.
Look to see if there are prefs-n.js files in the profile folder, where n is a number (for example, prefs-2.js).
Remove Invalidprefs.js.
Restart your browser.

If the above solutions to common browser problems are not clear to you. Then completely remove Mozila from your computer and reinstall it from the official developer site.

The setting of your browser's home page is controlled not by the OS, but directly by the browser you choose. If you use popular programs such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Google Chrome, you can remove existing home page settings in Settings. Let's look at the example of the Arena page, which very often appears in an involuntary way. So, how to remove the Arena start page?

Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer browser. This is the default browser on most Windows computers.
Click "Tools" in the top menu bar and select "Internet Options."
Select the General tab.

Mozilla Firefox

Open a browser window.
Click "Tools" in the top menu bar and select "Options."
Select the General tab.
Clear the existing values in the Home Page field, or select Blank.
Click "OK" to confirm the changes.

Safari

Double-click the icon on your desktop or in the Programs menu to open a browser window.
Click the "Edit" button in the top menu and select "Settings".
Select the General tab.
Clear the existing values in the Home Page field, or select Blank.
Click the "X" button in the top right corner of the screen to confirm the change.

Opera

Open the Opera browser window.
Click "Tools" in the top menu bar and select "Settings."
Select the General tab.
Clear the existing values in the Home Page field, or select Blank.
Click "OK" to confirm the changes.

Google Chrome

Open a browser window.
Click the settings icon in the top right corner of the screen and select Settings.
Select the "Basics" tab.
Remove the existing value in the "Open this page" field.
Click the "Close" button to confirm the changes.

Sometimes, to remove certain start pages, for example: Yandex, Arena, Rambler, Webalta, you can delete toolbars, the set of which includes start pages. So, how to remove the Yandex start page by removing the toolbar: Click Start -> Programs -> Yandex Toolbar -> Delete. In the same way, you can remove the Rambler start page and many other pages. But there are more complicated situations. For example, Webalta. There are a lot of problems with deleting this page. So, how to remove the Webalta start page?

First, set permission to view system files and folders in the Folder Options settings (in the Control Panel)
Close all web browsers.
Next - Start -> Find - enter Webalta. Delete all files with this word.
Then - Start -> Run - enter regedit - then: Edit -> Find - delete everything with the word Webalta.
We look for the user.js file here: C:\Documents and Setting\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xx.default, where xx is any value.
Open this file using a simple notepad and delete the entries “_http// webalta .ru”, and write “about:blank”, remove all unnecessary things from the start page.
We check the prefs.js file in the same folder. Find user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "_http// webalta .ru"), delete Webalta.
In C:\WINDOWS\system32, delete the file called operaprefs_fixed.ini.
Remove shortcuts to all Internet browsers from your desktop, as well as from the Quick Launch panel. Ready.

These are the simple ways to reset the start page in the browser, now you know how to remove the start page, remember it yourself and share this useful information with your friends.

This article will help you remove third-party toolbars like Ask, searchqu, MyStart, incredibar, seeearch, somoto, sweetim, uTorrent, and others from Firefox and restore your default home page, New tab page and search settings. For help removing the Babylon toolbar, see How to remove the Babylon toolbar, home page and search engine.

If you just want to remove a search engine from the Firefox Search Bar, see the Add or remove a search engine in Firefox article.
If you need help with toolbar customization or if you simply want to hide a toolbar, see Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars .

How did this happen?

Toolbars from third-party software providers can change your search, New Tab and home page settings or cause other problems with Firefox. These toolbars can get added to Firefox when you visit a website and click on an "Install" link, when you download and run a toolbar installer, or when you install software that includes a Firefox toolbar. Be careful when installing or updating other applications and make sure you deselect any options for toolbars or other bundled software that you don"t want.

Also, some software providers offer their own version of Firefox that includes a toolbar and other customizations (for instance, Mozilla Firefox® optimized for Yahoo!) so always make sure you download Firefox from the Firefox download page.

How do I fix it?

Enabling start from the disconnect point

It is also possible to configure Opera in such a way that instead of the start page, those Internet sites that were open at the end of the previous session, that is, at the time the browser was turned off, will be launched.

This is even easier to do than assigning specific pages as home pages. Simply switch the switch in the “At startup” settings block to the “Continue from the same place” position.

As you can see, removing the start page in the Opera browser is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. There are two ways to do this: change it to the selected home pages, or set the web browser to start from the point of disconnection. The last option is the most practical, and therefore is especially popular among users.

It often happens that when you launch the browser, a completely different home page opens than it was launched before. Such changes often happen after installing some new program.

Removing the start page in any browser is quick and convenient

To eliminate such violations, users will need to learn how to remove the start page of the most popular Internet browsers, which are most often installed on personal computers.

Instructions for removing the home page of web browsers

The work of all browsers is regulated, one might say, in the same way. However, in each “adventure game” this process has its own subtleties. Therefore, it is worth considering the procedure for getting rid of the problem for all popular browsers.

In Google Chrome, press the button with the image of a key. It is located in the upper right corner. Then you go to the item called “Options”.

In Firefox, select the item called “Tools”. It can be found in the top menu. Then you go to “Settings”. Then the “Basic” tab opens, where “Launch” is selected. After this, the desired option is indicated.

In Opera, the procedure for carrying out actions is similar to operations in Mozilla. So, first the menu is called up by pressing Ctrl and F12 simultaneously. Then click on the item called “Show launch window”.

After such a choice, Opera will ask the user each time what exactly he wants to open. People also need to know how to deal with the problem in Safari. In this “adventure game” it is possible to make almost any site home.

To do this, first open the resource, then click on the “Menu” of the browser. Next, you must first click “Settings” and then select “General”. Finally, click “Set current page” and “Save”.

How to remove the home page in the browser. How to remove the start page