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Can no longer navigate to Firefox Home Page

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Prior to ~1 week ago, my process of using Firefox was as follows:

  • Open a new tab, search for something, click through a few links

If I couldn't find anything relevant in the first page of results, I'd navigate back to the Firefox Home Page and try another search. I hate going past the first page of results!

However, as of ~1 week ago, I can no longer navigate to the Firefox Home Page - why is this?

Prior to ~1 week ago, my process of using Firefox was as follows: * Open a new tab, search for something, click through a few links If I couldn't find anything relevant in the first page of results, I'd navigate back to the Firefox Home Page and try another search. I hate going past the first page of results! However, as of ~1 week ago, I can no longer navigate to the Firefox Home Page - why is this?

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Hi

Easiest to avoid such issues is to open the result in a new tab, that allows to close the tab to go back to the Firefox Home page.

You can hold down the left mouse button on the back button or right-click to open the tab history to see if you can find the Firefox Home entry.

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I can tell that I will not be able to navigate back to Firefox Home Page because once I hit enter key after typing my search terms and get to the next page to see search result, the back button is still greyed out.

This is a very recent change. In fact, if I launch a clean profile, I can see that the behaviour there is as I expect. So why is it that Firefox settings get to mess up on their own and the only solution is to refresh thereby losing all the settings.

This is one thing that is very frustrating about Firefox. Settings keep changing and there's nothing to be done other than refreshing. I can definitely understand why Firefox market share is so low. Searching the web I see so many issues are resolved by refreshing Firefox yet none of the other browser have such drastic measure of correcting issues. If it wasn't the power of containers, I'd have already left Firefox. I guess we have to keep dealing with such.

I'm beyond frustrated and now I'm starting to ramble on. I'll leave it at that.

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You mention containers in your above reply. If you use containers then that could be a possible cause for this permission issue.

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