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New tabs display a google search box from igeared.com

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To clarify the issue, here's what happens every time I add a new tab: The tab appears, but with content including a search box from a third party, igeared.com, a site which my firewall blocks as unsafe. This began suddenly and not at my request. At the same time, Firefox also began reloading the previous session every time and now never displays the exit dialogue box asking whether it should save tabs. Also, I'm running Firefox 9.0.1. I'm avoiding upgrading to 11 because, in my experience, this ALWAYS provokes a shouting match between Firefox and the Roboform add-in that takes hours of work to resolve. I depend on Roboform for my livelihood, and despair of playing the "doesn't work now" game with the two vendors. In short, it looks to me like igear.com has hijacked my browser. Any solutions?Also, Firefox now always restores previous session, including the bad tab stuff

To clarify the issue, here's what happens every time I add a new tab: The tab appears, but with content including a search box from a third party, igeared.com, a site which my firewall blocks as unsafe. This began suddenly and not at my request. At the same time, Firefox also began reloading the previous session every time and now never displays the exit dialogue box asking whether it should save tabs. Also, I'm running Firefox 9.0.1. I'm avoiding upgrading to 11 because, in my experience, this ALWAYS provokes a shouting match between Firefox and the Roboform add-in that takes hours of work to resolve. I depend on Roboform for my livelihood, and despair of playing the "doesn't work now" game with the two vendors. In short, it looks to me like igear.com has hijacked my browser. Any solutions?Also, Firefox now always restores previous session, including the bad tab stuff

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Found it. My new email client (emclient) is the culprit. Disabling the toolbar stopped the hijack. I've now uninstalled the toolbar, since what I do in my browser is none of my email client's business. Thanks for the two related responses - they're both helpful.

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You can set what what happens when Firefox starts with these instructions - Set what pages open when Firefox starts.

It sounds like you've had some add-on switch your home page and search engines. This add-on will reset all of that to the Firefox defaults for you - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/

Also you should update Firefox to version 11. It includes security fixes that are not in version 9. You can just download and install the new version from mozilla.org

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You can set the Integer pref browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes to 0 on the about:config page to get the about:sessionrestore page immediately with the first restart after a crash has occurred or the Task Manager was used to close Firefox.

That will allow you to deselect the tab(s) that you do not want to reopen, but will allow to reopen other tabs.

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Ausgewählte Lösung

Found it. My new email client (emclient) is the culprit. Disabling the toolbar stopped the hijack. I've now uninstalled the toolbar, since what I do in my browser is none of my email client's business. Thanks for the two related responses - they're both helpful.