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What are the reasons my Mozilla Firefox defaulted homepage is now YAHOO homepage?

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MzRRP
MzRRP
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Yesterday i realized my defaulted homepage opened as YAHOO mozilla firefox. I download the new Mozilla Firefox today August 19,2014 however I continue to get the YAHOO mozilla firefox as my defaulted homepage.

Please help me understand why this keeps occurring.

Thanks,

MzRRP

Yesterday i realized my defaulted homepage opened as YAHOO mozilla firefox. I download the new Mozilla Firefox today August 19,2014 however I continue to get the YAHOO mozilla firefox as my defaulted homepage. Please help me understand why this keeps occurring. Thanks, MzRRP

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the-edmeister
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Where did you download Firefox from? Sounds like you have a Yahoo enhanced version of Firefox.


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

FredMcD
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Press the Alt or F10 key to bring up the tool bar. Followed by;

Windows; Tools > Options Linux; Edit > Preferences Mac; application name > Preferences

Then General.

There are two settings;

  • When Firefox Starts

When the browser is started, what do you want to display. Many of us choose Show My Home Page.

  • Home Page

When a new page is opened, what do you want displayed.

  1. Use Current Page. Use what ever page(s) are open at that time.
  2. Use Bookmark
  3. Restore To Default. about:home shows a Mozilla page with tools.

You can use any of these that you wish;

about:home (Firefox default home page), about:newtab (shows the sites most visited), about:blank (a blank page),

or you can enter any web page or about: page you want.