So, in this article, we will look at how to make your favorite website, search engine or service the start page in the Mozilla Firefox browser. As an example, I'll take, as always, home page search engine Yandex.
After you set it up, you can . After this, all hyperlinks in mail or documents will immediately open in your favorite web browser.
Making a start page in a couple of clicks
We open our favorite site in a new tab, in my case it is Yandex. Drag this tab with the mouse to the “House” icon. Let's look at the screenshot:
This is how quickly you can make a home page in Mozilla. However, the home one is the one that opens when you click on “Home”, and the start one is the one that opens when the browser starts. Therefore, if you need the latter, read on.
Making a start page using the Mozilla Firefox browser settings
Click on the menu button in the upper right corner and select “Settings” from the drop-down list.
Immediately in the “Basic” tab, indicate that “When launching Firefox» the home page was shown, and in the field below you indicate the site you already need. In my case, this is Yandex, which is still there after using the first method.
In this lesson I will tell you how to change home page in the Mozilla Firefox browser.
In the last lesson on working with the Mozilla Firefox browser, we exported and imported bookmarks. In this lesson I will tell and show you how you can change the start page in the Mozilla browser.
First of all, open the browser and go to its settings. To do this, in the upper right corner you need to click on the icon in the form of three stripes, and then select “Settings” from the drop-down menu.
A window with browser settings will open in front of you. Now we need to select the "Basic" tab. It is here that you can configure the page that will open when the browser starts.
A tab will open in front of you, on which at the very top you will see a block with settings called “Launch”. The first setting, in the form of a drop-down menu, is the command that the browser will execute when you launch it. There are three settings to choose from here:
- Show home page
- Show blank page
- Show windows and tabs last opened
I think you can handle the last two, there’s nothing special here, but you can understand the first setting in more detail. By setting the "Show home page" option in the drop-down menu, next step you must point it to the browser. There is a special field for this a little lower. In it you can:
- manually enter any website address
- set the page you are on this moment were found using the "Use current page" button
- use a bookmark. In this case, the browser will ask you to specify a bookmark that should be set as the start page. There's nothing complicated here
- restore everything to default
After setting up the start page, you just have to click on the “Ok” button at the bottom of the window.
(orig. Zen) - special service, which allows you to receive information based on personal recommendations. It compiles an individual selection of news and links based on your interests and browsing history. Today I’ll tell you how you can turn it on and off.
We continue to work with the browser from Google and next up we have a question about how to add a bookmark to google chrome.
Want to change the start page in Mozilla Firefox, but it doesn't change? Would you like to see the site you need on the main page? Next we will talk about how to configure the browser at your discretion.
The start (start) page is displayed immediately after launching the browser. On it you can see the home or blank page, as well as previously open tabs.
To customize the Firefox start page with Mozilla's built-in resources, open the menu at the top right and go to Settings.
In the window that opens, make the “Basic” tab active and pay attention to the “When Firefox starts” item:
- Show home page.
- Show blank page.
- Last opened tabs.
The names speak for themselves, so we will not go into their description. For greater clarity, see the following figure.
Once you have made the necessary changes, click OK for them to take effect.
There are other ways to customize the Mozilla Firefox start page - using add-ons, let's look at one of them.
A tool that displays a list of selected sites on the Mozilla Firefox start page. With its help, customization of dils is performed ( visual bookmarks) and change appearance browser interface.
To install this add-on, go to the Mozilla menu and select the “Add-ons” section. Then open the "Get Add-ons" tab. search bar Type Speed Dial FVD and press Enter.
You will find the Speed Dial extension, click the “Install” button and follow the prompts of Mozilla Firefox.
This is what the Mozilla Firefox home page could look like with the extension installed and configured.
The Mozilla home page opens in the browser after clicking the button with the “house” icon. It is used to quickly navigate to the desired site.
There are two ways to set up your home page in Mozilla, both of which do not require installing any extensions. Let's look at them in order.
The first and easiest way is to drag the open tab onto the house icon, as shown in the following image.
Then, to set this page as your home page, confirm the action by clicking “Yes”.
The second way is through the Mozilla settings. Open your browser settings and go to the “General” tab, just like you did on the start page.
Near the inscription “Home Page” you can enter your URL address or use the buttons below:
- Use current pages.
- Use a bookmark.
- Restore to default.
It is clearly shown in the following picture.
Want to set up multiple home pages? Then open each of them in a separate tab, then in the settings click the “Use current pages” button. They will open in different tabs after clicking the Home button.
The home page in Firefox does not change - what to do?
Sometimes Firefox settings do not change or are reset to the original settings that do not suit you. This may happen due to software you installed on third-party sites, programs that include the Firefox toolbar, or viruses.
Removing someone else's toolbar that changes the search and home page of Mozilla Firefox
These recommendations will be useful for users who want to remove the toolbar Ask, Utorrent, Somoto, SweetIM, seeearch, incredibar, searchqu, MyStart and others. There are several solutions to this problem. First, let's look at Firefox's cleanup feature, which resets the browser to factory settings.
In the address bar Mozilla browser Firefox type the following command and press Enter: about:support. In the window that opens, click the “Clean Firefox” button.
Then confirm your intentions. This will remove your additions and changes you made to the settings, and will restore default values, as if you were starting from scratch.
Firefox will close and the cleanup process will begin. Upon completion, a window with a report will be displayed - a list of imported information. Click the "Finish" button and the browser will open.
Please note, this function will remove:
- History of web surfing.
- Bookmarks.
- Passwords.
- Cookies.
- Open windows and tab groups.
- Personal dictionary.
- Information for automatically filling out forms.
- Extensions and themes.
- Download log.
- Security settings.
- Social functions.
Mozilla won't start - find the Firefox cleanup button in the browser's safe mode.
Attention! Don't confuse safe Firefox mode and Windows are different things.
To launch Mozila in safe mode, press the Shift key and click on the Fireforks shortcut, as if you were running it normally.
In the window that opens, click “Run in Safe Mode” or “Clean Firefox.” The second button restores the default settings, click the first.
The browser will launch with extensions disabled, hardware acceleration disabled, and toolbar settings reset.
Test Mozilla Firefox in Safe Mode. If your problem still occurs, it is not caused by browser extensions or the installed theme. Otherwise, when problems do not arise, they may be caused by extensions, the Mozilla theme, or hardware acceleration.
To exit from safe mode, close the browser and launch it again without the Shift key.
To disable hardware acceleration:
- Open the Mozilla menu and select the “Settings” section.
- Select the "Advanced" panel, and in it the "General" tab.
- Uncheck the box next to “Use hardware acceleration when possible.”
- Save your changes.
The problem is solved - it means hardware acceleration is to blame. You can update graphics drivers your PC or launch a browser without this function.
To return to the original theme:
- Open the Firefox menu and select Add-ons.
- Go to the Appearance tab.
- Select the default theme and click "Enable"
- Restart your browser.
The problem has been resolved - the reason is established theme, no - let's dig further.
To disable all extensions:
- Go to the Fireforks menu – “Add-ons” section.
- Select the Extensions panel.
- Disable all existing extensions.
- Restart Firefox.
When the browser starts, extensions will be disabled. Check if your problem is noticeable. It’s not there – it’s a matter of extensions. Activate the add-ons one at a time to identify the source of the problem. Found - remove or update the extension, which changes the search and home page in Mozilla.
Other solutions to the problem with search and the browser home page
- Remove the browser from your computer, then download from official page downloads and reinstall.
- There may be malware installed on your computer or the hosts file has been modified.
- Go to the menu – “Settings” - “Protection” - “Exceptions”. Check to see if there are any sites you don't need here. If you find third-party addresses in the “Exceptions”, feel free to delete them.
- None of the above helped - check the properties of the shortcut for launching Mozilla, this is described below.
Firefox home page does not change - how to fix it?
Does Mozilla Firefox start page appear incorrectly when you launch the browser? Check the Mozilla shortcut. Some programs can change its properties so that when the browser is launched, the page opens third party application, affiliate program or another site you don't need.
- Click right click Click on the Firefox shortcut and select “Properties”.
- On the “Shortcut” tab, in the “Object” field, only the following should be written:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
and nothing else. Of course, if the browser was installed in a different directory than the default one, the path will be different.
We return browser settings if they are not saved
The following guide to action may solve your problem of Firefox page not changing and settings not being saved. There is nothing complicated in the steps described below, although you will have to edit some browser configuration files.
Some programs may force Firefox to use specific settings, and you will not be able to change them in the usual ways, like this:
- Creative ZenCast changes the Firefox agent using Java. The solution is to uninstall Creative ZenCast.
- McAfee antivirus privacy service disables (blocks) pop-ups in the browser. To disable pop-up blocking, open the Muzzler menu - select “Settings” - “Content” panel. Uncheck the "Block pop-up windows" checkbox.
- Norton 360 enables Firefox's privacy wipe feature, which overrides the browser's privacy settings to prevent cookies, browsing history, and other personal data from being saved between sessions.
- Some third-party toolbars change the Mozilla home page and search options. You can reset them using the special SearchReset add-on.
If you do not have the programs described above installed, and your browser settings are not saved. Then you will have to edit the User.js configuration file. There's nothing complicated about it. It's done like this.
- Open your profile folder by going to your browser menu and clicking on Help (the question mark icon). In the tab that opens, select “Problem Solving Information.”
- On the next page, in the “Application Information” section, click on the “Show Folder” button.
- Close the Mozilla Firefox browser.
- In the folder that opened in step 3, find the user.js file and run it in text editor Notebook. If you don't have a user.js file, these recommendations won't help you.
- Delete the lines in user.js with the settings that need to be changed. You can delete all lines, then all settings will change.
- Save and close the user.js file.
- Launch the Mazila Firefox browser. Now the settings in it should change.
Perhaps in your Firefox versions a program configuration file has been added that blocks changes to some settings or prevents them from being saved. In this case, completely remove the browser from your computer and reinstall it.
If the steps described above do not solve your problem, and when you start the program, you constantly see a tab with the message Firefix has been updated. Most likely, the file that the browser uses to save settings is damaged or blocked.
Solving the problem with a locked settings file:
- Open your profile folder. To do this, go to the browser menu and click on Help (the icon with a question mark). In the new tab, click on “Information to solve the problem.”
- In the Application Details section, find the Show Folder button and click it.
- Close your browser.
- In the folder that opens, find the prefs.js file, if there is one, then prefs.js.moztmp.
- Right click on these files and in context menu go to their "Properties".
- Make sure that in the attributes of each of them there is no checkbox next to “Read Only”. If necessary (correct), remove it.
- Delete all prefs-n.js files where n is a number, for example, prefs-1.js
- Find and delete the Invalidprefs.js file.
- Restart your browser, the settings should now be saved.
The settings file is damaged, what should I do?
The settings file may be damaged; we have already described above how to find it. Delete prefs.js, Mozilla Firefox will create another one.
Attention! By deleting the prefs.js file you will lose custom settings in many of your extensions.
Deleting settings files:
- Find prefs.js and if there is prefs.js.moztmp, delete these files.
- Look to see if there are prefs-n.js files in the profile folder, where n is a number (for example, prefs-2.js).
- Remove Invalidprefs.js.
- Restart your browser.
If the above solutions to common browser problems are not clear to you. Then completely remove Mozila from your computer and reinstall it from the official developer site.
For those who use Yandex, this standard search engine is naturally Yandex.ru. We will understand how to make Yandex the start page of Mozilla Firefox in this step-by-step site instructions
To begin with, it is important to emphasize: in order to put into practice all the stages of this step-by-step instruction, you do not need to connect to the Internet or have any abstruse and secret knowledge. The instructions are so simple and clear that even a novice user can easily make the necessary adjustments to the Mozilla Firefox settings, setting the favorite and so familiar one as the start page.
Additionally, it is worth noting: for readers living in Russia, the address of the Yandex start page will end in “.RU”, for Ukrainians – “.UA”, for Belarusians – “.BY” and so on. In this case, you don’t even need to do any additional operations - the system will automatically transfer you to Yandex of the region in which you live, from where you access the Internet.
How to make Yandex the start page of Mozilla Firefox
1. Open your Mozilla Firefox browser, which should already be installed on your computer. Go to the menu item “Tools” - “Settings”.
2. In the settings, we are primarily interested in the “Basic” menu item:
3. Once in the “Basic” section, pay attention to the “When Firefox starts” item, where you need to select the “Show home page” option. We expose this option here.
YANDEX.RU
From now on, Yandex will become your start page and will automatically launch every time you start Mozilla Firefox!
Note and reminder: if you live in Ukraine, you can immediately enter in the “Home Page” field the address of your “regional” Yandex, which will look like: YANDEX.UA, for residents of Kazakhstan - this is YANDEX.KZ, for Belarus - YANDEX.BY , and so on for the countries of the former Union.
At the same time, you don’t have to bother with regions, because... redirection will happen automatically. Moreover, in any case, Yandex will have to load not the main page, but a page displaying news, weather, maps, and traffic jams specifically for your region. Therefore, you should not worry too much about such trifles. Registering Yandex.ru will be quite enough.
As we promised, the step-by-step instructions were short but informative. But the most important thing is that now the reader knows how to make Yandex the start page, and will always be able to make these settings on their own, without the help of their loved ones.
Mozilla Firefox is one of the fastest browsers, although Chrome is most often used on the RuNet.
All website owners want to have as many visitors as possible. They come up with various tricks so that browsers (Mozilla) independently register the address of their resource.
Then upon launch, the start page (home) shows the contents of their site. “Webalta” succeeded most in this. How to remove it.
Second on the list is “mail ru”. You can get rid of it. No more such malicious illegal intrusions into users’ browsers have been noticed.
Changing the start page in mozilla (if it is not a virus intrusion) is quite simple, using standard means web browser.
How to change the start page in mozilla
To change the page that loads when you start the browser in Mozilla, first make the browser menu visible.
To do this, click on the top left side on the “Firefox” inscription, move the cursor to the “settings” option and click “menu bar”.
Then select “tools” at the top and go to the “settings” of the mozilla.
Now a window will open in front of you in which you can easily change your home page.
Subsequently, this will be the main start page of your Mozilla browser. That's all.
If you have any difficulties, you can simply return the system back to the time when everything was as it should be, or simply describe the problem in the comments. They will definitely help you here. Good luck.
Some novice users of the Mozilla search engine may have some difficulty setting up home page.
This is due to the fact that configuration in Mozilla Firefox is carried out somewhat differently compared to other types of Internet browsers.
Below we will look at how to set up a home page in Mozilla.
Purpose of the search engine home page
Everything is quite simple here. It is designed to optimize the user experience or, more simply put, for convenience. Almost every person has web resources that he visits quite often to obtain information, do work, or just for fun.
A customized home page interface provides a person with a pleasant appearance and a quick transition to the desired site. They are usually worth using because slow loading caused by a large number of visitors to the web resource.
If the user wants to create the optimal start page for him or modify the initial interface, then he needs to perform certain manipulations.
It is worth noting that in addition to the above methods, the user can resort to installing add-ons and extensions from the Mazila catalog. Installing add-ons will also contribute to the convenience and improvement of the appearance of the Internet browser home page. Basically, most users usually installed file FVD Speed Dials, which is quite relevant today.
Setting up the start page in Mozilla Firefox
In order to set a page that is relevant to the user, you need to resort to one of the commonly used methods, namely:
Method 1:
This method will allow you to necessary settings for maximum convenience. However, it is worth considering that the search engine must be Russified, since in any other language this method will not bring the expected results.
Method 2. Installing your own version of the Mazila browser page.
To create your own version, you will need to save the file on your local computer in HTML format, followed by coding. To create a creative home page design, it is recommended to use a WYSIWYG editor (easily found on the Internet).
Then the code generated in the editor will need to be inserted into the previously created file and perform the following actions:
- Open the prepared element in an Internet browser.
- It should display the link file:///C:/My_Page.html.
- Next, open settings, click on “general”
- And in the “Address bar” item, place the link file:///C:/My_Page.html.
- Confirm.
- Reboot.
Using these methods, a novice user of Mazila Firefox can quite easily set up a page to ensure their own comfort. Personalizing the search engine will require a minimum amount of time and effort.
This article provides information on how to change the start page in Mozilla Firefox. After all, cases are different. Sometimes, the user may unknowingly change the settings when installing software downloaded from the Internet. Sometimes this can happen due to malware.
What is the Mazila Firefox start page
The Mozilla Firefox start page is the page that opens when you launch the browser of the same name. It consists of a set of popular sites selected by developers from the Mozilla Corporation. This selection can be changed if desired to suit your needs and preferences. This handy feature allows users to organize their favorites.
You can manipulate the start page as follows. In the upper right corner of the browser, select the icon with three horizontal stripes, then click on the “Settings” tab in the context menu.
In the page that opens, in the “Basic” item, it is possible to make changes, namely the following:
- how to make a search engine;
- how to make the start page in Firefox;
- how to change the home page in Mozilla;
- how to select a folder for downloading files;
- various manipulations with tabs.
When starting Firefox
It is possible to customize the display of the home page in three options at your discretion:
- Selecting a home page generated by search engine developers (if desired, you can either add the necessary sites or delete unused ones at any time).
- Show blank page.
- Show windows and tabs that were open when the browser was closed (useful feature when working unfinished with many tabs).
Homepage
As for the “Home Page” settings, everything is also very simple. There are also three options for displaying the home page:
- By selecting this item when the page is open, a link will appear in the “Home Page” column, for example to “www.yandex.ru”. You can insert any other necessary link into this window.
- At this point, you can configure your home page by selecting the required link from the history of visiting Internet sites.
- If you are not satisfied, you can restore the default home page display settings.
Any changes in settings are usually carried out experimentally. You can always roll back everything. Try and practice, dear Internet browser users.
home page in the browser, this is what the user sees when opening it. The concept of “starter” or “home” has been used since the very first versions of Internet browsers. On the panel of each program, including the FireFox panel, there is a “Home” button, which returns the user to the address specified in the settings.
Using browser settings
The Mozilla FireFox start page and its options are set in the browser settings. Of course, there are several ways to do this, but first I’ll tell you about the most basic one, which opens everything for the user at once available options. So, to change your home address settings, you will need:
- Open the program.
- Left-click on the menu button on the right side of the FireFox toolbar.
- Select “Settings” from the drop-down menu by clicking on it once.
- Go to the "Basic" tab.
- Set the value of the “When FireFox starts” and “Home page” parameters, in the first, selecting the behavior of the browser when opening, and in the second, specifying the link to the starting site.
Using the controls located in this window, you can avoid manual addition URLs of the required page. For example, if the site that you plan to make home is now open in another tab, simply click on the “Use current page” button. In turn, the “Use Bookmark” function is useful so that one of the bookmarks is set as the FireFox start page.
By dragging the page title
There is another way you can tell FireFox which address it should open when it starts. This method does not allow you to configure all the parameters of this function at once, but it is suitable if you already use a website as your home site and just want to change its address. The Firefox home page in this case changes like this:
- You need to hold down the left mouse button on the title of the open tab in which the desired site is loaded.
- Without releasing the mouse button, drag the tab to the side.
- Move the tab to the Home button on the toolbar and release the left mouse button when the cursor is directly above the house icon.
After completing this procedure, the browser will ask you to confirm the changes:
That's all, actually. These two methods will help you make sure that when you launch the browser or click the “Home” button, the desired mozilla home page opens.
Different people have different ideas about what a launch page should look like, and this is something that you come across quite often. Fortunately, users can customize the Mozilla Firefox start page to their liking.
The start page is what you see immediately after you launch Mozilla's Firefox browser (Figure 1). Configuration can be done using standard browser resources or using special extensions.
You can also create your own personal welcome page. Next, we'll look at what exactly needs to be done to complete the setup.
Figure 1 – Mozilla Firefox home page
Default Mozilla Firefox start page setup
To customize the start page of the Mozilla Firefox browser in the usual way you need to go to the settings window. To do this, click on the icon in the upper right corner and in the menu that appears, click on the “Settings” icon (Figure 2).
Figure 2 - Setting up the Mozilla Firefox welcome page
In the window that opens, you will need to go to the “Basic” tab (Figure 3). The "When Firefox starts" field has three different options that determine how the Mozilla Firefox start page will look.
- Display home page. You can use any site, bookmark or page that is open at that moment of your choice. To return to the original settings, select “Restore Defaults” in the “Home Page” section.
- Show a blank page when opening the browser.
- Open sites that were viewed during your last session with Mozilla Firefox.
Figure 3 - Setting up the Mozilla Firefox welcome page
Your own way to configure the start page of the Mozilla Firefox browser
You can use the file from your computer as the browser start page. Create your own unique design. To do this, use the editor WYSIWYG You can generate a special code and save it in a file on your computer. Next, you need to open the created file in the browser. You will see a link something like this - file:///C:/Page_1.html. Enter this link in the settings section of the home page and click “Save” (Figure 4). As a result, you will receive your personal creation as the start page of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Figure 4 - Setting up the Mozilla Firefox welcome page
You can also download and install special add-ons. They are designed to transform the Mozilla Firefox start page as much as possible. Nice extension is FVD SpeedDials. You can download it from the Firefox store, which is located at https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/. After installation, the initial page will look like in (Figure 5).
Figure 5 - FVD SpeedDials
As you can see, there are many ways to quickly and easily customize the Mozilla Firefox start page to your liking.
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