How can I stop Corecomm and Untitled always appearing as extra homepages? (I have checked all homepage settings.)
I recently (yesterday) installed Firefox. I set Gmail and Google Translate as homepages, but now when I open Firefox, it also opens a tab with a website called CoreComm (which I have never heard of and never visted before) and an Untitled blank tab.
I have checked in Internet Options and the homepages display as they should, and I have also checked that next to 'When Firefox starts' it says 'display my homepage'.
Many thanks for your help.
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Ok so I found the answer hidden away in a cache of a page of mozillazine from 2006. Yey! So I hope the user who cunningly found it out, gregconquest, is happy for me to repost here:
"I may have found the answer to this. I had a similar problem on a new DELL mini 9. It turns out in my case that my collection of home pages had a single dis-allowed character causing the problem.
Firefox uses the character "|" to separate url's in its collection of home pages (Edit ("Tools" on Windows) -- Preferences -- Main -- Home Page). I had entered one of google's translation pages in the list: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=ja|en# Notice the "|" character? Well, apparently Firefox was interpreting (pardon the pun) the "|" as the end of that url, and then "en#" as the next url. Somehow entering "en#" was being directed to "www.en.com/#", CoreComm's page.
This was bewildering. I only figured it out because the translation page was not being loaded correctly and I was trying to figure out that "unrelated" problem and saw the connection.
Greg"
Many thanks gregconquest - wherever you are!
I guess I would like to keep my Google Translate Swedish-English page as my homepage, so if anyone works out how I can, I'd be grateful.
You need to escape the "|" to %7C in such cases.
Firefox uses the pipe to separate multiple home pages.
Perfect - many thanks cor-el!