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Firefox Updated Tab Auto Opens Whenever You Start Firefox

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Mar
9
2009

When you have finished updating your Firefox web browser, you should see a Firefox Updated tab automatically opens informing you that you’ve been updated to the latest version of Firefox and this update will make you safer on the web. Yeah it’s nice getting a confirmation on that and normally this tab will only come up for the first time you open Firefox after an updated. However, it can be really annoying when you that Firefox Updated tab keeps on opening by itself together with the default Google tab whenever you start Firefox.

Firefox Updated tab

The latest version of Firefox web browser v3.0.7 was released a few days ago. JC updated it and unfortunately he was one of the victim of the tab that opens by itself whenever he starts Firefox. At first I thought maybe he had IP Hider installed because I remembered that this happened to my computer right after I’ve installed it but he didn’t have that on his computer. He checked his Firefox’s Startup homepage and it is only showing the Google page. Here are a few solutions that could help him fix this annoying problem.


According to Mozilla’s Knowledge Base, Firefox changes a setting in its preferences file to determine whether you’ve seen the “Firefox Updated” tab. If you are having problems with that file then Firefox will be unable to save this information and will show you the “Firefox Updated” tab each time you start it. You can visit this page for the solutions.

JC followed the steps in that Mozila Knowledge’s Base but it did not solve the problem. Here’s another solution to reset your Firefox profile.

1. Download MozBackup to make a backup of your necessary components such as Bookmark, saved passwords and etc. Make sure you DON’T backup General Settings because that will keep your preferences an you’ll end up with the same problem after restoring your backup.

2. Go to Run and type %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox

3. Rename profiles.ini file to another name let’s say profiles.ini.bak

4. Run Firefox and it will automatically recreate a new profile for you.

5. Run MozBackup to restore back your bookmarks and etc.

You should see the page that thank you for installing the safest, fastest and most customization version of Firefox yet. Now try closing Firefox and click the Quit button when prompted to save your tabs for the next time it starts. Run Firefox again and you shouldn’t be bugged by the “Firefox Updated” tab until your next update.


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    • mamed

      “Helping others is helping yourself.”
      Anonymous.
      Thanks.It would be nice if you could tell me about what I have asked you about so many times in my formers posts.
      I can´t take part in the forums.

    • jc onte

      hehe, nice raymond, thanks for posting
      its me, jc

      i know that post will resolved our members errors in firefox

    • Ken

      Thanks raymond, your post solve my firefox error too.

    • Decent60

      O.o
      I’ve never actually had that problem. Good to know though.

    • Hong Meng

      i had that problem also.It also only show other app which had been updated every time i load firefox, but i only deleted pref.js in the folder in profile folder and it work too =]

    • tarun

      thanks for posting

    • chocoapocalypse

      thanks raymond.. it fixed my problem with firefox. before…. when i click firefox, it opens with all the sites of the addons that i have updated; veoh, piclens, downloadhelper etc… now its allright.. thanks raymond..

    • Phil

      I fixed this by deleting the following line in the firefox-branding.js:

      pref(“startup.homepage_override_url”,”http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/”);

      woot!

    • zundapp

      Ah yes the above method using MozBackup resolved the problem.

    • martyn

      Hi, Just want to say a huge thanks – I was really nervous about doing this as I when it was processing I thought omg what if i lose all the bookmarks and this advice on this site doesn’t deliver on its promises etc – irrational thoughts but you get the picture about the worries this sort of action can invoke – anyway, all i can say is having followed to the letter the advice not only does it work but i find my mozilla is now loading much faster so i think it has cleared out a lot of other problems i wasn’t aware of – i have had mozilla for years and done upgrades etc but this was the first bug i could not fix until i read this advice on this web site here. Thanks once again

    • Mark

      Thanks for the information. I did exactly what you proposed (renaming the profiles document) and later I re-imported my old firefox settings and it works perfectly again !

    • Joe

      The only was I was able to get rid of this was to completely uninstall and re-install firefox

    • Gianluca

      Thank You Raymond, this post solved my Firefox problem.

    • Gary G. Schempp

      I found an easy fix!!!

      Upgraded to Firefox 3.6 and lost my 8 opening tabs feature.
      Would only open 2 tabs even though I had another 6 listed and separated with “|” ‘s like before on the General / Home Page box.
      After much anguish and trial and error I discovered my fix.

      I fixed mine here…

      1. Go to Tools then Tab Mix Plus Options
      2. Go to Session tab
      3. Go to Start/Exit tab
      4. in “When Browser Starts:” select Restore
      5. in “When Browser Exits:” select Don’t Save

      Hope this helps you… Gary at GaryGS1 at yahoo.com

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