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Topic: Firefox option to go to home page or previous page |
Stuart Legg
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Posted 26 Oct 2010 3:29 pm |
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The new Firefox doesn't give me the option of returning to previous page or returning to the home page it automatically goes to the previous page.
I've tied everything in the program and I can't find a place that will let me change that.
If it won't give me that option I would like it to just return to the home page in every circumstance.
Does anyone know how to change this? |
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 26 Oct 2010 6:33 pm
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Stuart, I'm not sure what you want but you have the option of manually doing these operations ..click on the green button top left to go back one page or click on the house button to go to your home page
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John Floyd
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R.I.P.
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 29 Oct 2010 12:34 pm
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Bent I'm referring to the option to start a new session or open previous window and tabs.
I sometime have a freeze up or a site that has captured me or a crash.
When I boot up again and go to Firefox it takes me right back to the problem.
When I restart I wish to have firefox return to my home page as it did before the last upgrade.
I changed the appropriate setting to no avail. |
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Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 29 Oct 2010 12:40 pm
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| Firefox has become almost unusable. Everything renders weirdly: linkedin pages are unreadable. I'm thinking of switching over to Chrome. |
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 30 Oct 2010 10:28 am
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Stuart, try this: In Options/tabs, check the first 4 boxes and leave the 5th one blank.
In Options/Privacy/History, choose "Firefox will: Use custom settings for history"
Accept cookies from sites,
Keep until I close Firefox and
Clear history when Firefox closes.
I am still not sure if this addresses your issue to a T but Firefox works ok for me with these settings
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 30 Oct 2010 3:53 pm
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What is the best "next thing to do" when this type of page (per John Floyd's link above) appears? I've been hitting alt-F4 to kill the page and it usually kills Firefox. Hitting any of the window buttons looks dangerous.
Short of pulling the plug is there a better escape route?
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 3 Nov 2010 3:49 pm
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Bent;
I've encountered several pages recently that would not respond to either the back arrow or the bomb X.
Alt-F4 doesn't work either for these nasties.
I've had to call up task manager, go to applications, and then end the application. Sometimes it took killing the firefox process in task manager's process list.
I also keep a copy of process explorer running just in case a rogue process needs to be axed.
I've encountered that "Reported Attack Page" fakeout before, and just killed the whole Firefox process. Just wondering if this catches them soon enough.
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 3 Nov 2010 6:21 pm
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Ray, if I (seldom) get an attack page warning, it always suffices for me to X out that page.
The only times I have to shut down FF is when it locks up for some reason I cannot explain.That reason is never the attack report page however. It usually takes hitting CTRL/ALT/DEL to open task manager and then several tries of hitting the shut down button.
Yes, I believe that the attack page report kills the bad page before it has done harm to your pc. I haven't had a virus or spyware since I can't remember when.
- AVG scans come up clean every day, so does SB S&D
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Storm Rosson
From:
Silver City, NM. USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2010 1:15 am
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 launch FF>clik on options,rite under the icons on the first page labeled general, directly under the top row of icons, you will have a field that says when I reopen FF you will have 3 choices;return to my homepage,open to a blank page, or return to the last page u had open when FF was closed. To always return to your default homepage, set the field to say return to my homepage.  |
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