I suspect you could have malware, or possibly an unwanted plugin or addon that is causing this. see

• What to do when searches take you to the wrong search website
• Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware
• (Changing homepage is covered by How to set the home page )

Changing the homepage itself is fairly easy, but from your message it appears the homepage changes back again. If the problem is just something unwanted it should be easy to remove, if it is malware it may be a bit trickier.

Start by trying in safe mode but when you do that do not make any changes initially when you see the first dialogue Window, just click on the continue button. It may help if you copy the URL of the new searchpage or new homepage that you are getting, or does that keep changing ?

Hi,

Sorry I have not responded I tried your suggestion and that did not work plus tried downloading other internet utilities in the attempt to remove possible mallware on top of the up to date Norton Internet Security software I already use and none of that seems to work either. Any other ideas?

Are you able to answer the question about the URL that is now appearing as your homepage, are you able to copy that from the location bar.

• use Ctrl L, Ctrl C, Ctrl V, to copy and paste the information into a message.

Have you tried resetting the HomePage, as explained in the article How to set the homepage Does the homepage reset. Have you tried setting Firefox to open a blank page.

What happens if you try to use a search engine directly, such as Google

• http://www.google.com

OK here goes I am not sure what I mean by question but here is what happens when I open Firefox I get the following url and homepage http://www.searchqu.com. Now I want http://ca.my.yahoo.com/ to be my home page so I hit a bookmark where that is the url and once that page is loaded I drag and drop that to over the home part of the browser. Now sometimes it allows me to get the yahoo page as a homepage if I hit home but other times it reverts back to the searchqu page. I hope this anmswers and provides you with more info.

I suspect this is either malware or related to a malware problem.

Two other threads I have found mention malware scans and one mentions resetting one of your preferences. (But possibly if malware is involved, then any preference change may prove temporary) See

• I can't change my Firefox homepage search engine.
• & When I startup firefox it comes with a browser called searchqu which I can't change back. Is there anyway to change it?