Please tell me how to eliminate games on the home page.
I'm a new Firefox user. I liked it until the game appeared on the home page. I understand Mozilla will eventually remove the game. In the meantime, I feel visually disturbed.
Please tell me how to remove this.
Apparently it will happen again.
I don't want to use a browser which uses animations on the home page.
I loved the user control of iGoogle. I quit Google due to animations during the International Soccer tournament. Firefox is cleaner and easier to read than Google Chrome.
Please tell me if I need to give up and return to Safari.
thank you, lilyplants
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You could change your home page to a different site, such as the Google home page. These articles have the steps for that:
Alternately, there are ways to flush and/or block the rotating "snippets". This thread has more information: Why the flat firefox image on the start page with WASD when clicked?
Also, just fyi, that game will be going away today, it was a 1 week snippet.
thank you for your responses.
if this happens again I'll try to "flush" snippets. I don't want to change the home page back to google.
the "flushing" action is complex and may interfere with firefox when it reverts to normal.
If you prefer not to see the snippets on the about:home page or otherwise experience problems with a snippet then you can set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string on the about:config page. Delete the storage\persistent\moz-safe-about+home folder in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed ("3-bar" Firefox menu button > Exit/Quit) to remove snippets stored in IndexedDB and make Firefox use a default snippet set. You can reset the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref via the right-click context menu to the default value to re-enable the snippets and make Firefox recreate the moz-safe-about+home folder. You need to close and restart Firefox after changing the value of the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref.
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
It's Tuesday. The game is still there. How do you find out when it will go away???
Cor-el, thank you. I'll try that solution if it happens again. It's a complex procedure.
It is basically two things:
- set a specific pref to an empty string on the about:config page.
- browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl
- clear out a folder in the Firefox profile folder on the hard drive with the Firefox application closed.
- storage -> persistent -> moz-safe-about+home
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)