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Mozilla Firefox keeps opening to Lavasoft ad-aware secure search page. Not sure how to remove this extension...

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Since the past few weeks, my Mozilla Firefox on my laptop keeps opening to Lavasoft ad-aware secure search page. I don't know what I installed or what I did that could have caused this, but I wish to remove this and instead have the Google search page open up by default. I can't get this done and it is annoying. I don't see this extension installed in the list of Firefox extensions, nor do I see any program like this installed on my computer. I checked the Firefox search engines, and I only have Google activated. I am on Firefox 81.0.1, by the way. I have attached an image of what it looks like. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks in advance!

Since the past few weeks, my Mozilla Firefox on my laptop keeps opening to Lavasoft ad-aware secure search page. I don't know what I installed or what I did that could have caused this, but I wish to remove this and instead have the Google search page open up by default. I can't get this done and it is annoying. I don't see this extension installed in the list of Firefox extensions, nor do I see any program like this installed on my computer. I checked the Firefox search engines, and I only have Google activated. I am on Firefox 81.0.1, by the way. I have attached an image of what it looks like. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks in advance!
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I see this was solved on Reddit (home page was hijacked; How to set the home page).

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I see this was solved on Reddit (home page was hijacked; How to set the home page).