Every browser vendor these days wants to own users by asking users to make their browser default, Firefox is no different. Here is how you can disable the default browser check done by Firefox.
After installing the Firefox browser, when you launch it, Firefox checks to see if it already was the default browser, if it’s not, ask the user to make it as default:
” ‘Make Firefox your Primary browser?’, Keep Firefox at your fingertips -make it your default browser and pin it to your taskbar”.
If you don’t want Firefox to perform the default browser check every time when the browser was launched, follow the below steps to deactivate the same.
Disabling default browser check by Firefox browser on Startup
- When you see the default browser prompt from Firefox, then check ‘Don’t show this message again and click ‘Not now’
- or, Visit Settings > General, and under Startup, uncheck ‘Always check if Firefox is your default browser.
Or
- Visit about:config
- Select the check box and click “Accept the Risk and Continue”
- Search for “default” and change ‘browser.defaultbrowser.notificationbar‘ preference value to false.
Note: If the Pref doesn’t exist, Create a boolean pref and assign the above, and set the value to false.
Final words: Firefox may perform a check on every Firefox startup instance to check if it is the default browser and prompts you to make it if it’s not. Here is how you can disable the default browser check done by Firefox.
Have you been bothered by Firefox to set it as default? Let us know in the comments below.
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