How to delete "22find" starting page, popping-up when changing "Tabs"
Whenever I access any "tab", enters "22find portal de sites" link as starting page. How can I delete this ? The "Start Icon" > Search does not find anything. (Sorry for poor english - portuguese is my language.
Chosen solution
by cor-elTry to reset some preferences to the default with the SearchReset extension:
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
- Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
If you do not keep changes after a restart then see:
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Preferences+are+not+saved
Helpful replies
Hi,
To remove 22find.com do the following:
- Enter “about:config” in url bar in order to open settings page;
- Write “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Write “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Write “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Search for ‘browser.newtab.url’. Right-click and reset.
Very often more than one browser is affected by hijackers like 22find.com, if you need to remove it from other browsers, follow these 22find.com removal instructions.
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This happened
Every time Firefox opened
This started when...
This started after updating to Firefox 14.01
Installed Plug-ins
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- Shockwave Flash 11.4 r402
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.6.636
- Internet Banking Helper
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- Google Update
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- 5.1.10411.0
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.4.634
- Google Updater pluginhttp://pack.google.com/
- Winamp Application Detector
- NPWLPG
- 1.9.0042.0
- Office Live Update v1.4
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
- DRM Netscape Network Object
- DRM Store Netscape Plugin
- Npdsplay dll
- Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
More Information
If you want a blank tab, enter about:config into the address bar, hit the return key on the keyboard, and change this setting:
browser.newtab.url - change to about:blank
Chosen Solution
Try to reset some preferences to the default with the SearchReset extension:
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
- Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
If you do not keep changes after a restart then see:
Go to Add ons - Extensions and remove Proxy tool (by 22find).
Helpful Reply
Hi,
To remove 22find.com do the following:
- Enter “about:config” in url bar in order to open settings page;
- Write “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Write “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Write “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Search for ‘browser.newtab.url’. Right-click and reset.
Very often more than one browser is affected by hijackers like 22find.com, if you need to remove it from other browsers, follow these 22find.com removal instructions.