When you have finished updating your Firefox web browser, you should see a Firefox Updated tab automatically opens informing you that you’ve been updated to the latest version of Firefox and this update will make you safer on the web. Yeah it’s nice getting a confirmation on that and normally this tab will only come up for the first time you open Firefox after an updated. However, it can be really annoying when you that Firefox Updated tab keeps on opening by itself together with the default Google tab whenever you start Firefox.

The latest version of Firefox web browser v3.0.7 was released a few days ago. JC updated it and unfortunately he was one of the victim of the tab that opens by itself whenever he starts Firefox. At first I thought maybe he had IP Hider installed because I remembered that this happened to my computer right after I’ve installed it but he didn’t have that on his computer. He checked his Firefox’s Startup homepage and it is only showing the Google page. Here are a few solutions that could help him fix this annoying problem.


According to Mozilla’s Knowledge Base, Firefox changes a setting in its preferences file to determine whether you’ve seen the “Firefox Updated” tab. If you are having problems with that file then Firefox will be unable to save this information and will show you the “Firefox Updated” tab each time you start it. You can visit this page for the solutions.

JC followed the steps in that Mozila Knowledge’s Base but it did not solve the problem. Here’s another solution to reset your Firefox profile.

1. Download MozBackup to make a backup of your necessary components such as Bookmark, saved passwords and etc. Make sure you DON’T backup General Settings because that will keep your preferences an you’ll end up with the same problem after restoring your backup.

2. Go to Run and type %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox

3. Rename profiles.ini file to another name let’s say profiles.ini.bak

4. Run Firefox and it will automatically recreate a new profile for you.

5. Run MozBackup to restore back your bookmarks and etc.

You should see the page that thank you for installing the safest, fastest and most customization version of Firefox yet. Now try closing Firefox and click the Quit button when prompted to save your tabs for the next time it starts. Run Firefox again and you shouldn’t be bugged by the “Firefox Updated” tab until your next update.