Locate and delete a file called “prefs.js.” I just renamed it then deleted it later.<\/p>\n
At the top of the Firefox, click the HELP menu and select Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open and click the button SHOW FOLDER.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A folder with your profile files will open.\u00a0 Also delete the “prefs.js.moztmp” file if you have one.\u00a0\u00a0 You will need to delete all “prefs-?<\/em>.js” files (where ?<\/em> is a number) as well.\u00a0 Mine was “prefs-2.js” for example.\u00a0 If it exists, delete “Invalidprefs.js” also.<\/p>\n Now restart Firefox and it will create a new “pref.js” file for you and the problem should be gone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If this did not work for you, try some other options:\u00a0 Firefox Link #1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 or Firefox Link #2<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had updated Firefox and had this issue.\u00a0 It was annoying to see the update tab start every time. There are a couple of reasons this may happen. First, check the obvious, did you accidentally make it your homepage (ie where Firefox starts)? This was not the case with me.\u00a0 In my case the preferences … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[313,312,314],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-technology","tag-firefox-update-tab","tag-mozilla-firefox-update-tab-keeps-starting","tag-update-tab-starts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/firefoxProfile.jpg\" "\\"firefoxProfile\\"")
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