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Windows 7. Dowload complete, but when I click on icon, I only get a google homepage and google toolbar. Never a Firefox page or toolbar.

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druddock
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I installed Firefox successfully yesterday. But when I click on the icon, the only page that comes up is a google home page with a google toolbar. No firefox visible at all as page or toolbar. Can't figure it out. Current browser in Explorer and I have a windows 7 operating system on a desktop.

I installed Firefox successfully yesterday. But when I click on the icon, the only page that comes up is a google home page with a google toolbar. No firefox visible at all as page or toolbar. Can't figure it out. Current browser in Explorer and I have a windows 7 operating system on a desktop.

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Matt_G
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Hi druddock,

Is Firefox in fullscreen mode? Try hitting F11 to see if the toolbar and navigation bar are just hidden. If you see a small Firefox button in the corner, hit Alt and go to view > toolbars and enable the Navigation toolbar and the Bookmarks toolbar. The Navigation buttons like back, home, bookmarks and reload are missing article also has some good information in it.

You should take a look at the Knowledge Base article How to set the home page and try setting your homepage to about:home. This is the default Firefox homepage.

If that doesn't work you should look at the article How to fix preferences that won't save. If you've upgraded from 3.6, you might also want to look at this article with common questions after upgrading.

Hopefully this helps!