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How can I stop the annoying "Hooray! Your Firefox is up to date" screen/tab from appearing every time I start Firefox?

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STALMIKI
STALMIKI
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Every time I start Firefox the annoying "Hooray! Your Firefox is up to date" screen/tab appears. I know it is up to date. How can I stop this?

Every time I start Firefox the annoying "Hooray! Your Firefox is up to date" screen/tab appears. I know it is up to date. How can I stop this?

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Hi STALMIKI,

You should look at this article about that specific issue and the article Preferences not saved. These should give you all the information you need!

If that doesn't work:

  1. Type about:config in the address bar
  2. Click I'll be careful, I promise if prompted
  3. In the Filter input field type startup
  4. Double click on startup.homepage_override_url
  5. Delete the text string and click OK
  6. Close Firefox and reopen the window to verify that it has worked.

Hopefully this helps!

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Matt_G
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Hi STALMIKI,

You should look at this article about that specific issue and the article Preferences not saved. These should give you all the information you need!

If that doesn't work:

  1. Type about:config in the address bar
  2. Click I'll be careful, I promise if prompted
  3. In the Filter input field type startup
  4. Double click on startup.homepage_override_url
  5. Delete the text string and click OK
  6. Close Firefox and reopen the window to verify that it has worked.

Hopefully this helps!

STALMIKI
STALMIKI Question owner
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Thanks bunches, Matt_G! Your last suggestion was the one that worked.

vadodb
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Hi There 

  I had the same problem and the way I fixed it, at least it worked for me, is the following:
   1. Go to tools.
   2. Under the tools tab select options.
   3. Under options select tabs.
   4. "uncheck" the first option, this is, open new windows in a new tab instead.

    Once I did this, the hurray annoying page is not opening any more. Hope this will help.

Modified by vadodb