selenium - Firefox webdriver opens first run page all the time

Question

How to disable this "first run" page once and for all for FF?

When FF driver is created, it opens tab with - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/42.0/firstrun/learnmore/ and additional tab with target page.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33937067/firefox-webdriver-opens-first-run-page-all-the-time

Answer 1

To turn off this annoying start page:

in C# with Selenium 2.48 I found the following solution:

FirefoxProfile prof = new FirefoxProfile();
prof.SetPreference("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "ignore");
prof.SetPreference("startup.homepage_welcome_url.additional",  "about:blank");
Driver = new FirefoxDriver(prof);

...and it will never bother you again.

Note: One of these settings alone will also work. I use them together to make it bullet-proof.