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I use iGoogle as my home page and when I select the Home page icon on the address bar Firefox also loads old link to bbc news page. How do I disable this?

michael.j.luton
michael.j.luton
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I'm using firefox on an iMac. Firefox is my default browser. When Fire fox loads it correctly goes to iGoogle my defined home page but it also loads a second tab and a web page that I linked to from my home page about two weeks ago(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14862235). I deleted this page from my search history, shut down Firefox and then reloaded, but second tab still loaded to old web page. I have restarted the computer and powered up Firefox with the same result.

I'm using firefox on an iMac. Firefox is my default browser. When Fire fox loads it correctly goes to iGoogle my defined home page but it also loads a second tab and a web page that I linked to from my home page about two weeks ago(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14862235). I deleted this page from my search history, shut down Firefox and then reloaded, but second tab still loaded to old web page. I have restarted the computer and powered up Firefox with the same result.

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kolion-padthai
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Make sure in Preferences/General/Firefox Startup "Use my home page" is selected and NOT "Show my Windows and Tabs from last time"

michael.j.luton
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Thankyou mccashin:

I checked the home page assignment in preferences and found that the errant site had been appended to the normal (google) home page address. Incidentally, I had basically solve the problem within a session by erasing all history related to bbc. Without your fix I would been back to the same error next time I started Firefox from scratch. Thanks again.