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how can I delete an un wanted website appearing as fire fox start page?e

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vmhan2020
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I opened Indian pass port web site some time back and the job is done..but fire fox is still showing the website as opening page in spite of deleting it from history, downloads etc, how this can be removed?

I opened Indian pass port web site some time back and the job is done..but fire fox is still showing the website as opening page in spite of deleting it from history, downloads etc, how this can be removed?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Could you check whether it it has somehow gotten into your settings as your home page? See:

In some cases, a web page will get added to your Firefox shortcut. You can tell it's there because it appears every time you use the shortcut -- for example to open a new window during your session -- but never when you use the Home button (or Alt+Home on the keyboard, or Ctrl+n to launch a new window). If it's in the shortcut, you can edit that by right-clicking it, choosing Properties, and then on the Shortcut tab, make sure you only have this in the Target: 

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

or for 64-bit Windows: 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

A final possible scenario is that a bad settings file is involved, but that is less likely.

cor-el
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I'm curious: are you running Firefox in compatibility mode as your user agent mentions Windows NT 4.0

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 4.0; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0

You can open the Properties of the Firefox desktop shortcut via the right-click context menu and check the "Compatibility" tab. Make sure that all items are deselected in the "Compatibility" tab of the Properties window.