No matter how many times I delete it, it keeps sticking itself back. I see no options to prevent this. - April Russo

April what operating system are you using? - Kol Tregaskes

XP - April Russo

I've not used XP for years but if you open up your Start Menu and go to the list of your applications you have a "Startup" folder there. Open that up and you should see the FF Notifier. To remove it right-click on the name and select Delete from the menu then click OK. Next time you boot up it shouldn't run the app. Hope this helps? - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah, I know how to get rid of it, but the next time you run the notifier it sticks itself back in startup again. That's what I want to stop. - April Russo

Ah see, sorry. That's a odd. I cannot see an option in Settings to toggle this either! :-( - Kol Tregaskes

This is driving me nuts. I have been through every file & folder I can think of looking in and the entire registry and can't find where the setting is that tells it to do that crap. - April Russo

April, the ultimate utility to control any and all windows starup apps is Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us... . A how to post here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto... - Micah

@Kol, @Micah, neither of those are what she wants. when the app is opened it recreates the startup folder entry. - mjc

Right. And I don't want that. - April Russo

Sounds like it's not recreating a folder, it's just adding it to the recently used programs list. Right click on the start menu, choose properties, start menu tab, and tell windows to no longer keep track of your recently used programs. - FFing Enigma

I see. - Micah

@Tina, also not it... it does it for me on my XP VM, puts a new shortcut in the startup folder... thus when you reboot, it launches the notifier on startup - mjc

No, it's not most recently used folder that I am having an issue with. It's the startup folder. The one that makes applications load at startup. Very easy to spot when something new ends up in there because I only keep 1 shortcut in that folder. Anything else is unauthorized. I have deleted the shortcut for the notifier out of there more times than I can count and it's getting very annoying. - April Russo

This is where I am talking about: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u... http://dl.getdropbox.com/u... - April Russo

http://skitch.com/projct... this also, on the mac - mjc

I misunderstood the issue, April. Only thing I can think is to try removing it using msconfig rather than a software overlay. I've got a p2p that does the same thing, though: I remove it from startup and it returns. Still haven't found a solution - FFing Enigma

It doesn't matter what you use to remove it. Next time you run the notifier it just puts it back. Right click, delete, empty recycle bin should be enough to get rid of it, and it does. But when something is shoving itself in startup on each run by default and no way to change it, it's a bit futile to remove it. - April Russo

I use a simple app called regprot to prevent unwanted startup items http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/freeuti... - Willem (@wim66) ☠

That's fine but the FF team should fix the problem any way, because this isn't the way nice applications should behave. - April Russo

Just found that regprot does NOT prevent FF from putting itself in the startup menu. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

That's because it's not a registry entry. It's a shortcut file in the startup folder. - April Russo

Anyone Windows user that wants a temp fix for this (till they fix it) here ya go: http://appsapps.info/ff... Drop the FFlauncher.exe in same folder with FriendFeed.exe and use that instead of launching the application directly. It will run the friendfeed app, wait 10 sec, delete the shortcut it made, then exit. (Delphi source included) - April Russo

Thanks, April. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Sorry April and everyone, the AIR documentation says the start at login setting can be changed through the operating system, but I can't find it either. We'll make the app less aggressive about doing it automatically. - Casey Muller

Not a problem. You can take your time now. As you can see, nothing has a chance for annoying me for very long. :-D - April Russo