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firefox loading a page at startup that isn't the home page

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I have firefox set to load my homepage at startup, but instead it loads a completely different page. Even when I go to my homepage, close out, and then go back in again. I've tried restarting the computer. Clearing cache, and I have win7.

I have firefox set to load my homepage at startup, but instead it loads a completely different page. Even when I go to my homepage, close out, and then go back in again. I've tried restarting the computer. Clearing cache, and I have win7.

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You can check the target line in the Firefox desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties) to make sure that nothing is appended after the path to the Firefox program.

You can check for recently installed suspicious or unknown extensions.


Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

See also:

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You can check the target line in the Firefox desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties) to make sure that nothing is appended after the path to the Firefox program.

You can check for recently installed suspicious or unknown extensions.


Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

See also:

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Thank you for the idea. I ran a scan with Norton and it appears to be fine now.