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why is bing and babylon coming with my firefox download i cant get rid of them

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my home page becomes babylon search provided by bing/fire fox

my home page becomes babylon search provided by bing/fire fox

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Where are you downloading Firefox from?
If you use the official Mozilla download mirror websites you won't get "extras" like that.

http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html
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See Removing the Search Helper Extension and Bing Bar

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There are other things that need attention.

Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.

  • Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12

Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.