Starting Firefox brings up blank page instead of homepage
After Firefox updated today, it no longer brings up my homepage when I launch the browser. Instead, it's just a blank page (not even a default page). Clicking on the homepage takes me to the correct address.
>Properties show "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" with no extension.
>I've tried resetting homepage defaults in the options, to no change.
Is there anyway I can get my homepage to show up when I launch the browser?
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It doesn't sound like Firefox is restoring your previous session if you just get a blank tab. Hmm...
Do new windows (Ctrl+n) load the home page as expected?
I do think we've had occasional threads about the startup page not loading, but unfortunately I can't recall the reasons for it. In some cases, I think users had a security software filter that was slow and Firefox timed out very quickly on the initial load. That shouldn't be an issue for an internal page. In older versions I think it sometimes was related to Firefox doing some leftover "shutdown" cleanup at startup. But that shouldn't happen every time you exit Firefox unless there is some other problem.
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It doesn't sound like Firefox is restoring your previous session if you just get a blank tab. Hmm...
Do new windows (Ctrl+n) load the home page as expected?
I do think we've had occasional threads about the startup page not loading, but unfortunately I can't recall the reasons for it. In some cases, I think users had a security software filter that was slow and Firefox timed out very quickly on the initial load. That shouldn't be an issue for an internal page. In older versions I think it sometimes was related to Firefox doing some leftover "shutdown" cleanup at startup. But that shouldn't happen every time you exit Firefox unless there is some other problem.
jscher2000 said
It doesn't sound like Firefox is restoring your previous session if you just get a blank tab. Hmm... Do new windows (Ctrl+n) load the home page as expected? I do think we've had occasional threads about the startup page not loading, but unfortunately I can't recall the reasons for it. In some cases, I think users had a security software filter that was slow and Firefox timed out very quickly on the initial load. That shouldn't be an issue for an internal page. In older versions I think it sometimes was related to Firefox doing some leftover "shutdown" cleanup at startup. But that shouldn't happen every time you exit Firefox unless there is some other problem.
Ctrl+n does load the homepage just fine.
I ended up doing a hard restart of my laptop and that seemed to fix the issue.
Modified by a.mackaman