The web.de version of Firefox is a pain (it always ignores my start page and gives me Web.de Search instead and worse it ignores how I choose to manage my search engines and always restores its own preferred list!

If you download a version of Firefox from some site other than the official Mozilla site, then you accept their terms and conditions and you agree to use the product with any changes that they made to the product.

Official Firefox download sites:

• https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
• http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Thanks for taking the trouble Helper7677. It cured the start page problem but not the list of search engines in the little window at the top right, even when I (for the millionth time) "manage" my search engines. I've deleted every bit of WEB.de software surreptitiously installed on my laptop but still its evil presence is felt. Any ideas?