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Bearshare was downloaded to our home computer. Now it has taken over my Firefox homepage and I can't get rid of it. I have tried changing the homepage via Tools, Options. Didnt work. Deleted the Bearshare app and cookies and web history. Still didnt work.

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Tried resetting default setting via Firefox Safemode. Didnt work. Any suggestions.? My situation is 2 home computers (Windows XP) sharing 1 modem, but have their own apps. Mozilla on the other computer is fine. Just this one which Bearshare was downloaded to. It took over the Homepage in IE too, but I was able to change it using Internet Options. The message which comes up when I try to change the Homepage is "An attempt to change the homepage has been blocked" Tks

Tried resetting default setting via Firefox Safemode. Didnt work. Any suggestions.? My situation is 2 home computers (Windows XP) sharing 1 modem, but have their own apps. Mozilla on the other computer is fine. Just this one which Bearshare was downloaded to. It took over the Homepage in IE too, but I was able to change it using Internet Options. The message which comes up when I try to change the Homepage is "An attempt to change the homepage has been blocked" Tks

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cor-el
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You only get an alert stating "An attempt to change the homepage has been blocked" if you have security software or an extension that is protecting against such a change. Firefox doesn't do that by itself. If starting in Safe mode didn't help then that only leaves security software, so you need to look to see how you can allow a home page change.