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fjulia
fjulia
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locking this thread as a duplicate of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1295337 please continue there


I can not get Firefox to open to my chosen home page. I have tried the various suggestions from the general help links. I asked this question yesterday and received a reply. I tried the suggestion (running msert.exe). No malware found. No success on the homepage. I did not have this problem at beginning of week. All was working fine and I really haven't installed anything new or visited anyplace strange. I have Webroot software as my protection. I do go to homepage when I click homepage icon in toolbar line. Just don't know why it won't open to that page when I start Firefox.

''locking this thread as a duplicate of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1295337 please continue there'' I can not get Firefox to open to my chosen home page. I have tried the various suggestions from the general help links. I asked this question yesterday and received a reply. I tried the suggestion (running msert.exe). No malware found. No success on the homepage. I did not have this problem at beginning of week. All was working fine and I really haven't installed anything new or visited anyplace strange. I have Webroot software as my protection. I do go to homepage when I click homepage icon in toolbar line. Just don't know why it won't open to that page when I start Firefox.

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FredMcD
FredMcD
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What home page are you trying to use?


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-set-the-home-page

Type about:config<enter> in the address bar.
If a warning screen comes up, press the I Accept the Risk button.
At the top of the screen is a search bar. Type browser.startup.homepage

What is the value?
Right-click and select Reset to restore its default value; about:home

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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It's simpler to continue in one thread to avoid duplicate responses: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1295337

By any chance is your home page Yahoo? Users started reporting a few weeks ago that for some reason Yahoo won't open at startup even though it opens in new windows (Ctrl+n) or when you click the Home button. Clearing Firefox's cache can resolve the issue for at least one startup but isn't a permanent solution. One workaround was to change from a full URL to just yahoo.com which is strange because Firefox has to do more work (redirect once or twice). I haven't seen a good explanation for why some people and some sites have this issue.