Mozilla VPN is currently experiencing an outage. Our team is actively working to resolve the issue. Please check the status page for real-time updates. Thank you for your patience.

This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Just updated to 9.0.1~ select homepage as about:blank & startpage as blank but it continues to open with the mozilla whatsnew page how can I stop this & have blank as I require?

  • 2 iimpendulo
  • 1 inayo le ngxaki
  • 2 views
  • Impendulo yokugqibela ngu macanudo

more options

Per above I am using Firefox 9.0.1 with Windows XP Home Edition & have been unable so far to set my Firefox startup preferences per all previous versions to Blank page even tho' that's what is selected under Tools-Options-General

Per above I am using Firefox 9.0.1 with Windows XP Home Edition & have been unable so far to set my Firefox startup preferences per all previous versions to Blank page even tho' that's what is selected under Tools-Options-General

Isisombulu esikhethiweyo

Hi macanudo,

You should look at this article about that specific issue and the article Preferences not saved. It might be a pref.js issue, so the second article should fix your issue with the search bar. 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!

Funda le mpendulo kwimeko leyo 👍 0

All Replies (2)

more options

Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

Hi macanudo,

You should look at this article about that specific issue and the article Preferences not saved. It might be a pref.js issue, so the second article should fix your issue with the search bar. 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!

more options

Brilliant.... I went through all the steps to no avail until I used your suggestion above...thanks a million.