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Home page set to GMail. Keeps going back to Bing search after a few starts.?

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Windows 7, Toshiba C655D-S5332 laptop, Latest version of Firefox. I set my home page to Gmail and after o few logons to Firefox, my home page resets to the Bing Search page. I have gone through this several times and it will not 'keep'. Any Ideas?

Windows 7, Toshiba C655D-S5332 laptop, Latest version of Firefox. I set my home page to Gmail and after o few logons to Firefox, my home page resets to the Bing Search page. I have gone through this several times and it will not 'keep'. Any Ideas?

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Remove BING :

That one was done with a Microsoft update that incorrectly updated people not using Bing.

How to Remove Bing as Your Default Search Engine and Get Firefox to Work the Way it Used to | eHow.com

http://www.ehow.com/how_5196325_remove-firefox-work-way-used.html

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL

Removing the Search Helper Extension and Bing Bar | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Removing%20the%20Search%20Helper%20Extension%20and%20Bing%20Bar

Make Google.com or any other page your home page

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page

Tools > Options Security

[x] Warn me when sites try to install add-ons
[x] Block reported attack sites
[x] Block reported web forgeries

Bring up the Control Panel, under Programs and Features, uninstall the Bing Bar


in case StartNow is not removed

Remove "Start Now" extension which puts Bing search into a new tab,
Tools > add-ons > Extensions or "Ctrl+Shift+A" > Extensions

then uninstall "StartNow" and restart Firefox. may be found in c:\program files (x86)\StartNow -- use the uninstaller in the StartNow folder.

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Gekose oplossing

Remove BING :

That one was done with a Microsoft update that incorrectly updated people not using Bing.

How to Remove Bing as Your Default Search Engine and Get Firefox to Work the Way it Used to | eHow.com

http://www.ehow.com/how_5196325_remove-firefox-work-way-used.html

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL

Removing the Search Helper Extension and Bing Bar | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Removing%20the%20Search%20Helper%20Extension%20and%20Bing%20Bar

Make Google.com or any other page your home page

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page

Tools > Options Security

[x] Warn me when sites try to install add-ons
[x] Block reported attack sites
[x] Block reported web forgeries

Bring up the Control Panel, under Programs and Features, uninstall the Bing Bar


in case StartNow is not removed

Remove "Start Now" extension which puts Bing search into a new tab,
Tools > add-ons > Extensions or "Ctrl+Shift+A" > Extensions

then uninstall "StartNow" and restart Firefox. may be found in c:\program files (x86)\StartNow -- use the uninstaller in the StartNow folder.

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A quick thank you. It seems to have done the trick.