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I can't begin to describe this, firefox opens to websites and I don't know why

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PLEASE HELP I never had issues with this browser which I use almost exclusively. Now over the past week, I am having nothing but.

I have windows 7 pro 64 bit. Once again, I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox after it seemed to be going haywire. I set how I want it to look, and I want the toolbar to show, the "file, edit etc." and I usually don't have problems finding how to do that.

But yesterday those vanished, and I use them too much and I don't know what happened.

So after I uninstalled and re-stalled, that took care of it.

HOWEVER now this browser when I open it, I open a new tab, which should bring a blank page, it goes to the last site I was. I did not set it to do that. 1) Does anyone know how to stop that? 2) It does open to the home page IF I click on firefox, but a new tab should bring just that.

Why is this happening? That is my second question. Can anyone remotely be tampering with this? 
How would that happen, if so, and how to I guard against it?
I DO NOT let this save passwords. I don't let any browser do that.
 Last, my email on my phone worked just fine until Friday morning, the last time it synched.
 Now I can't get emails on my phone because it says "password changed" -- what the f****? I didn't change anything, I am getting my emails on my notebook just fine, I have a pin on my phone so I can't fathom what is happening. This NEVER happened with my windows phone. I put in the password, and that was that. No issues.
That strays from Firefox, but it is an overall cause of problems of changes etc. that are making me very concerned. Yes I have macafee security.
LAST if someone had remote access, such as a tech with a company, and you end the access can the remote access ON THEIR END be re-connected? 

THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance for help with firefox issue, and any insight on the others. Gina

PLEASE HELP I never had issues with this browser which I use almost exclusively. Now over the past week, I am having nothing but. I have windows 7 pro 64 bit. Once again, I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox after it seemed to be going haywire. I set how I want it to look, and I want the toolbar to show, the "file, edit etc." and I usually don't have problems finding how to do that. But yesterday those vanished, and I use them too much and I don't know what happened. So after I uninstalled and re-stalled, that took care of it. HOWEVER now this browser when I open it, I open a new tab, which should bring a blank page, it goes to the last site I was. I did not set it to do that. 1) Does anyone know how to stop that? 2) It does open to the home page IF I click on firefox, but a new tab should bring just that. Why is this happening? That is my second question. Can anyone remotely be tampering with this? How would that happen, if so, and how to I guard against it? I DO NOT let this save passwords. I don't let any browser do that. Last, my email on my phone worked just fine until Friday morning, the last time it synched. Now I can't get emails on my phone because it says "password changed" -- what the f****? I didn't change anything, I am getting my emails on my notebook just fine, I have a pin on my phone so I can't fathom what is happening. This NEVER happened with my windows phone. I put in the password, and that was that. No issues. That strays from Firefox, but it is an overall cause of problems of changes etc. that are making me very concerned. Yes I have macafee security. LAST if someone had remote access, such as a tech with a company, and you end the access can the remote access ON THEIR END be re-connected? THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance for help with firefox issue, and any insight on the others. Gina

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Hey Gina, Change all your passwords, this will stop the remote access if there are any. Also check to make sure there are no third party apps managing your passwords. Also please contact the tech support for the phone for more technical help on that issue :-)

I also understand that the customization is not staying. Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars

Did this happen when you synced last? Also are there more than one device with different Customized ui settings?

Change the settings back from open "pages from last time" to the other homepage: How to set the home page or if this happened after you attached another device to the sync account, uncheck Preferences from the sync settings.

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Bookmark and use this; Download the Mozilla Search Reset {web link} This add-on is very simple: on installation, it backs up and then resets your search preferences and home page to their default values, and then uninstalls itself. This affects the search bar, URL bar searches, and the home page.


Settings Guard for Firefox {web link} Detects and resets changes to settings that are frequently done by add-ons and application installers.


These can't get your data back, but will help in the future.

These add-ons can be a great help by backing up and restoring Firefox

FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) {web link} FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions, history, passwords, and more. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your saved files individually into installable .xpi files. It will also make backup of files that you choose.

OPIE {web link} Import/Export extension preferences

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Hello

I never allow any browser to remember passwords! That's asking for trouble.
 But I did figure out why Firefox was opening to the previous website: it has settings that did that. I did not set it that way, but looking around I found it and undid that. 
 It was actually pretty simple, but because I did not set it that way, I was utterly confused as to what happened. I guess the more people use firefox the more vulnerable it can be.
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Did you have a user.js file in the Firefox profile folder that sets the browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once pref to true?

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No I really haven't had the time to look into or download that. It's embarrassing but the fix was so easy when i found where to look.

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Go to your https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1045739#answer-689209 post, and flag it as Solved Problem so others will know.