After doing a Firefox Refresh, Firefox now opens MSN on starting. How do I stop it?
I recently ran Firefox Refresh to speed up my browser. After Firefox was refreshed, it started loading the MSN page on starting, even though it is not set as my home page. All additional tabs show the correct home page. The URL that it opens looks like this: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/?cobrand=acer15.msn.com&ocid=ACERDHP15&pc=ACTE
It looks like Acer (my laptop manufacturer) is trying to force me to use MSN as a homepage. How do I undo this?
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What is the current setting of browser.startup.homepage?
You can try to modify browser.startup.page directly on the about:config page.
- 0 = blank, 1 = home (browser.startup.homepage), 2 = last visited page, 3 = resume previous browser session
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The presence of ACER in the URL would suggest that this is a customization from your computer branded by Acer, so maybe take this up to Acer support.
Did you at least check the target field in the Firefox desktop shortcut to make sure it doesn't include this URL?
You can also check the about:policies page to see whether policies are active (Options/Preferences -> Home should show this as well).
You can open "about:" pages via the location/address bar
- "about:" is a protocol to access special pages
cor-el said
The presence of ACER in the URL would suggest that this is a customization from your computer branded by Acer, so maybe take this up to Acer support. Did you at least check the target field in the Firefox desktop shortcut to make sure it doesn't include this URL? You can also check the about:policies page to see whether policies are active (Options/Preferences -> Home should show this as well). You can open "about:" pages via the location/address bar
- "about:" is a protocol to access special pages
It was never an issue before I refreshed Firefox. I was able to override the settings by going to about:config and changing the value for browser.startup.homepage
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What is the current setting of browser.startup.homepage?
You can try to modify browser.startup.page directly on the about:config page.
- 0 = blank, 1 = home (browser.startup.homepage), 2 = last visited page, 3 = resume previous browser session