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Firefox automatically opens MSN website when router connects

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Hello,

I'm having a really weird problem with Firefox. When I turn on my laptop and am already connected to my router, it works perfectly fine - no opening on its own. However, if I turn on my computer and my network status says "action needed", which means I need to click my router to connect, then it opens Firefox and opens msn.com.

It only does this when I have to click/manually connect to my router. I Googled this and already changed one of the config settings in Firefox. I have no clue why this is still happening.

Hello, I'm having a really weird problem with Firefox. When I turn on my laptop and am already connected to my router, it works perfectly fine - no opening on its own. However, if I turn on my computer and my network status says "action needed", which means I need to click my router to connect, then it opens Firefox and opens msn.com. It only does this when I have to click/manually connect to my router. I Googled this and already changed one of the config settings in Firefox. I have no clue why this is still happening.

Asịsa ahọpụtara

I figured it out, thank you.

I let my niece use my computer sometimes and installed a content filter a long time ago so she couldn't get into anything. Oddly, for whatever reason, this software opens msn.com in my default browser. Never knew it did this, no idea why.

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hello

All Seeing Eyes.......

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

tell me its helps then mark solution

thank you!

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Does this only happen with Firefox as this might be a feature offered by your ISP to show some welcome page ?

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ARMAN KHAN said

hello All Seeing Eyes....... 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 tell me its helps then mark solution thank you!

The browser.startup.homepage only shows this - https://prnt.sc/tk3358

cor-el said

Does this only happen with Firefox as this might be a feature offered by your ISP to show some welcome page ?

Yep, only Firefox.

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Asịsa Ahọpụtara

I figured it out, thank you.

I let my niece use my computer sometimes and installed a content filter a long time ago so she couldn't get into anything. Oddly, for whatever reason, this software opens msn.com in my default browser. Never knew it did this, no idea why.