Mozilla Startup Page



  • In this article, I am going to show you how to set a custom web page on any browser’s startup. Whenever you click on your browsers like google chrome, Microsoft edge, Mozilla firefox, Opera or any other browser then it shows a blank page or any other web page that you didn’t know, what is this and how it comes on the startup of your browser.
  • Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-10 Firefox default start page UI content invokable by script Announced February 4, 2014 Reporter Yazan Tommalieh Impact Low Products Firefox Fixed in. Firefox 27; Description.

From MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Try to set browser.startup.page to 0 (zero) on the about:config page. Browser.startup.page = 0 You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click 'I accept the risk!'

Contents

  • 2Possible values and their effects
  • 3UI

Background

Each time the web browser starts, this preference is consulted to determine what to display. It has superseded browser.sessionstore.resume_session as the preference determining whether saved sessions are restored.

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Possible values and their effects

0

Start with a blank page (about:blank).

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1

Start with the web page(s) defined as the home page(s). (Default)

2

Load the last visited page.

Restore Mozilla Firefox Home Page

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3

Resume the previous browser session

Mozilla
  • Firefox: Implemented after Firefox 2 beta 1
  • SeaMonkey: Implemented 2.0a3

UI

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Firefox 2.0

Mozilla.cfg Startup Page

Mozilla start page

“Show my home page,” Show a blank page,” and “Show my windows and tabs from last time” under “Tools → Options → Main → Startup → When Firefox starts” toggle between 1, 0, and 3, respectively.

Firefox 3.0

“Show my home page,” Show a blank page,” and “Show my windows and tabs from last time” under “Tools → Options → General → Startup → When Firefox starts” toggle between 1, 0, and 3, respectively.

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SeaMonkey 2.0

“Edit → Preferences → Browser → Display on: Browser Startup.

Previous effects

For a short time (about ten days), the value of 3 caused the browser to start with the URL defined in browser.startup.splash.

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First checked in

Has an effect in

  • Mozilla Suite (all versions since milestone 8)
  • Mozilla Firefox (all versions)
  • SeaMonkey (all versions)
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Related bugs

Related preferences

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