Trying to set homepage on Firefox 35.0.1

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I am running Win7 Home Premium SP 1 and I’m having a problem trying to get my home page set where I want it. I go into Options, the General settings page and type in the URl for my home page. After I check OK and sign out, the next time I bring up the browser the home page is always “Yahoo”. I don’t want Yahoo, but I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Any help here?

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L.D.,

[*]
[*]Navigate to the page you want as your home page.
[*]Make sure there are no other tabs.
[*]F10
[*]Tools
[*]Options
[*]General Tab
[*]Click: Use Current Pages button.
[*]OK
[*]Done

HTH :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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HTH – I tried that, but no go.

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When you typed in the URL, what did you have in the field immediately above it? “When Firefox starts” should have “Show my home page”.

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tonyl – that’s exactly what it shows

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If the above suggestions don’t work it could be worth running AdwCleaner and the MS Fixit to reset the Hosts File.

This is the MajorGeeks site for AdwCleaner as the bleepingingcomputer.com site seems to have turned into an auto download http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/adwcleaner.html

MS Hosts File reset http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034

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Sudo15 – I used your link to the Hosts File reset and used the “Fix it for me” link to reset the file. I think that solved the problem, as everything now seems back to normal. Thank you.

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Sudo15 – I used your link to the Hosts File reset and used the “Fix it for me” link to reset the file. I think that solved the problem, as everything now seems back to normal. Thank you.

Glad that worked out for you.

You can get redirects in there but usually only by malware – don’t think Yahoo.com falls into that category (yet), but you could have downloaded something that included Yahoo.com as your search engine just as Chrome and the Ask Toolbar are bundled with other downloads.

Just keep your eyes open for additional unwanted bundled software and uncheck their boxes before hitting Next or Install.

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sudo15, I have my FF set a hard-drive based html file That way, FF always comes up with something, even if the “on-the-net web site” is down. My HD-based bkmrk.htm simply has URLs [to the ‘net] galore, along with a tiny pic of Kaleth, a Romulan war-bird.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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This is the MajorGeeks site for AdwCleaner as the bleepingingcomputer.com site seems to have turned into an auto download

Did you use this URL:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

It doesn’t auto download for me. You can also get it directly from the author’s site here:
https://toolslib.net/downloads/

Jerry

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jwitalka – I downloaded AdwCleaner and ran it. It didn’t solve the problem.

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When I went to http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ before, the download prompt came straight up whereas now it doesn’t….

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I’ve never seen it auto download from bleepingcomputer.

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Grrrrrr!
Programs that I’ve downloaded and used, for years, now come bundled with CRAPWARE.
I sometimes have to wade through five or six PUPS to get down to the actual program that I want.

I noticed this yesterday when I wanted to download the latest ver. of the “K-Lite Codecs Pack” for Windows 7.

All too many people just blindly click ‘Next, Next, Next’ without ever reading what they are clicking on.
I caution my customers, to READ every word, of every window that pops up, to make sure they aren’t taking something they don’t want.

“it’s a jungle out there”.

Cheers Mates!
The Doctor

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Grrrrrr!
Programs that I’ve downloaded and used, for years, now come bundled with CRAPWARE. …
All too many people just blindly click ‘Next, Next, Next’ without ever reading what they are clicking on.
I caution my customers, to READ every word, of every window that pops up, to make sure they aren’t taking something they don’t want.
“it’s a jungle out there”.

You are soooo correct!
Everybody wants to make a buck and show me the CEO that refuses to pad the bottom line with 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars if his organisation has next to nothing to do for it.
Read AND HEED the yellow highlighted of my 10 Commandments for Safe Computing.

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UNCHECKY will help (to a degree) with unwanted crapware.

As always “caveat emptor”.

Kevin

You are soooo correct!
Everybody wants to make a buck and show me the CEO that refuses to pad the bottom line with 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars if his organisation has next to nothing to do for it.
Read AND HEED the yellow highlighted of my 10 Commandments for Safe Computing.

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Besides being careful about “check-boxes”, I use a program called EULAyzer. It reads the “Terms”that you have to approve before it will install. This program analyzes the “Terms”, and points out any “Interesting” things that you can’t see unless you read the WHOLE “Terms”! I have found some interesting things that some of these ask for! That way you MAY not want the program to install!!!

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So, now we’ve got Firefox ver. 36 wanting to be installed. I always wait a bit before jumping in (sort of like MS updates). Anyone noticed any problems with it? I usually don’t have any problems, but I’m one of those super careful people. I treat all updates like MS updates regardless of who they’re from.

Being 20 something in the 70's was so much better than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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No probs with mine.

Eliminate spare time: start programming PowerShell

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Just installed 36 on MacBook OS X, no problem but there’s a new feature called Firefox Hello, first thing I removed from the Toolbar.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right," ask "Am I doing the right things?"

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Just installed 36 on MacBook OS X, no problem but there’s a new feature called Firefox Hello, first thing I removed from the Toolbar.

Yeah, I got that Hello thing too. Wondered why the update jumped from 16 or 17 MB’s to 29 MB’s, now I know. My firewall asked if I wanted to allow it and I said no. I also removed the new icon from the toolbar. This might be something worth looking into, but I don’t like it one bit when they almost force it on you. Meanwhile I’ve 12 or 13 MB’s unaccounted for, for something I didn’t expect or ask for. Aside from that things look good so far, even seems faster.

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Hmmm. don’t see that “Hello” toolbar using V36.0.1 on Win7.

K

Just installed 36 on MacBook OS X, no problem but there’s a new feature called Firefox Hello, first thing I removed from the Toolbar.

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Good grief, now there’s FF ver. 36.0.1 staring at me! I wonder what’s gonna happen with it. Nothing I hope. Auugh!

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Firefox gets frequent updates nowadays, better get used to it .

Think of what this is like in large Government or corporate accounts where the folks that control the software/hardware/network infrastructure want to “test” everything out before letting “the peons” use it. Before retiring, I worked for a large 3 letter Government agency (as a software developer) where we were allowed to use IE and Firefox. However, Firefox updates were always lagging (to the point sometimes where a given version of Firefox was judged to have security issues). Trying to get later versions of Firefox (without the security issues) was nearly impossible UNTIL “the folks” that do the control wanted us to have it.

K

Good grief, now there’s FF ver. 36.0.1 staring at me! I wonder what’s gonna happen with it. Nothing I hope. Auugh!

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@CEScott:
If your computer is free of malware NOTHING will “happen”. It will just keep working.
Gleaned from the experiences with my thousands of in their own words mostly “computer illiterate” customers and my personal experience with six Win7/8 machines in the direct family plus three Linux systems..

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Yeah, updates are one of the many inconveniences we have to put up with if we want to be safe. But it’s all of the other “non-security” type things that they throw in with the updates (like the hello thing, and making changes to the program that get me upset at times. Just when I get things the way I want them, along comes an update and messes things up. I don’t like that aggravation. That’s what “happens”.

@CEScott:
If your computer is free of malware NOTHING will “happen”. It will just keep working.
Gleaned from the experiences with my thousands of in their own words mostly “computer illiterate” customers and my personal experience with six Win7/8 machines in the direct family plus three Linux systems..

Firefox gets frequent updates nowadays, better get used to it.

Being 20 something in the 70's was so much better than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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