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need assistance in establishing my home page as default when opening

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alanbarocas
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I would like to establish my my.yahoo.com home page as the default screen when i open the browser. currently it opens to the generic web page and i am required to log in to my web page each time.

can you help

I would like to establish my my.yahoo.com home page as the default screen when i open the browser. currently it opens to the generic web page and i am required to log in to my web page each time. can you help

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cor-el
cor-el
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  • Such details are stored in a cookie.
  • Websites remembering you and automatically log you in is stored in a cookie.
  • You need an allow cookie exception (Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: Exceptions) to keep that cookie, especially for secure websites and if you let cookies expire when Firefox closes
  • Make sure that you do not use Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox to clear the "Cookies" and the "Site Preferences"

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies

There are other things that need attention.

Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.

  1. Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
  2. Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers

Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.

Update the Java plugin to the latest version.