Pale Moon forum

I am currently using Pale Moon 27.9.3 on my laptop in order to avoid being sent to the start.me site. I would like just to go to my home page (Startpage.com) on startup. Can the link to start.me please be made optional? (Or maybe it already is and I just don't know how to choose?)

It is optional. If you have your homepage set to something else in your profile, then upgrading to v28 will just use whatever is already configured as your home page.