Pressing ctrl-k used to take me to the plain vanilla version of Google's homepage. Apparently, this has changed, as of Firefox 31. Pressing ctrl-k now gets me to some sort of Firefox-branded wrapper around the Google search box. Is there a way to change this new behavior back to the old behavior?
Firefox – How to make ctrl-k display plain Google homepage in Firefox
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I solved this by changing the about:home page itself. This is a "hacky" solution that will probably need to be re-applied on every upgrade, but here goes:
Locate the omni.ja file, mine was in c:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\browser. Note that there are several.
Edit the file chrome\browser\content\browser\abouthome\aboutHome.xhtml. To do this, you need to unpack omni.ja, do the edit, and then re-pack omni.ja again.
I put this instead of the original file content: