Hello,
I've encountered a somewhat random problem of the firefox start page randomly changing to linuxmint.com. This has happened to me twice now and I did not change any of the settings, except to change it back to the firefox start page. Any help to stop this happening would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
[SOLVED] Firefox start page randomly changing to linuxmint.com
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[SOLVED] Firefox start page randomly changing to linuxmint.com
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Re: Firefox start page randomly changing to linuxmint.com
Go to edit-->settings-->home and set it to whatever website you want. Mine is google.com.au. There are other settings you can adjust as to untick the Recent Activity box. You can also clear the history and see if the problem appears again.The recent version of firefox is V93.0
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stopitnow43111
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Re: Firefox start page randomly changing to linuxmint.com
Yeah I have it set to firefox home page. The problem is it changes to linuxmint.com without me touching anything in the settings.kato181 wrote: ⤴Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:02 am Go to edit-->settings-->home and set it to whatever website you want. Mine is google.com.au. There are other settings you can adjust as to untick the Recent Activity box. You can also clear the history and see if the problem appears again.The recent version of firefox is V93.0
Re: Firefox start page randomly changing to linuxmint.com
I believe that the Firefox that comes with the Mint installation is a special 'Mint' version.
Hence the Mint Homepage.
If you want standard Firefox then I think that you have to download the firefox-93.0.tar.bz2 from Firefox, delete the original install & run the new one.
Hence the Mint Homepage.
If you want standard Firefox then I think that you have to download the firefox-93.0.tar.bz2 from Firefox, delete the original install & run the new one.
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Re: Firefox start page randomly changing to linuxmint.com
Thanks for the answer, ill be sure to do that.RIH wrote: ⤴Fri Oct 22, 2021 2:45 am I believe that the Firefox that comes with the Mint installation is a special 'Mint' version.
Hence the Mint Homepage.
If you want standard Firefox then I think that you have to download the firefox-93.0.tar.bz2 from Firefox, delete the original install & run the new one.