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Enable Firefox Olympic flame

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FCx1
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Hi: I know that most people have problem with this doodle, but in my case having "about:home" as homepage, I cannot see the animation. How can I enable it?

Hi: I know that most people have problem with this doodle, but in my case having "about:home" as homepage, I cannot see the animation. How can I enable it?

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Still doesn't work.

A curious note: I installed Firefox portable, and I got the Olympic cauldron, Do you think if it's a good idea to remplace something from the portable version to the installed version?? Or do you suggest reinstalling Firefox??

I finally reinstalled Firefox and I fixed my issue. Seems like Firefox sometimes have troubles like this. Thank you for helping me!

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cor-el
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Do you see the base64 encoded images that make the flame in the "View Selection Source" via the right-click context menu if you select all the text on the page via Ctrl+A?

Try to reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref via the right-click context menu to the default on the about:config page and close and restart Firefox to restore the about:home page to its default.

  1. Open the about:config page via the location bar
  2. Type in the Filter bar: mstone
  3. Right-click the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone line and select: Reset
  4. Close and restart Firefox
FCx1
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Thanks for answering!

The only I see is the default Firefox logo (as if the Olympic cauldron never has existed in my PC). Resetting browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone doesn't work.

cor-el
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Try to delete the webappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox Profile Folder to remove all cookies and other data stored in DOM storage to make Firefox rebuild the snippets.

FCx1
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Still not appear.

When I start Firefox I found this error in english (I have FF in spanish) on "error console"

Could not read chrome manifest 'file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/extensions/%7B972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd%7D/chrome.manifest'.

Is this realted with my issue?

cor-el
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No, that is a common error in the error console caused by the default theme installation folder that has been moved to the omni.ja archive file.

Try these steps:

  1. check that the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl has the default value
  2. reset browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone to the default.
  3. close Firefox
  4. delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox profile folder
  5. restart Firefox
FCx1
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Still doesn't work.

A curious note: I installed Firefox portable, and I got the Olympic cauldron, Do you think if it's a good idea to remplace something from the portable version to the installed version?? Or do you suggest reinstalling Firefox??

I finally reinstalled Firefox and I fixed my issue. Seems like Firefox sometimes have troubles like this. Thank you for helping me!

Modified by FCx1