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Cannot change homepage from http://search.bearshare.com ever since downloading BearShare.

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JohnsonJay
JohnsonJay
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I downloaded BearShare last week and it changed my homepage to http://search.bearshare.com. Now, I cannot change this. Whenever I go into settings to change it, then save, it will change it until I close my browser and open it again, then it goes right back to http://search.bearshare.com.

I downloaded BearShare last week and it changed my homepage to http://search.bearshare.com. Now, I cannot change this. Whenever I go into settings to change it, then save, it will change it until I close my browser and open it again, then it goes right back to http://search.bearshare.com.

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cor-el
cor-el
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See e.g. these forum threads about Bearshare:

/questions/762144
/questions/700250
Ziky
Ziky
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go to run and type "firefox -safe -mode"

hope it solves your problem!

ivanx26
ivanx26
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dammm http://search.bearshare.com/ ...i got problem with this page...i can't open new window without bearshare

Lary_Smith
Lary_Smith
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just search the info about how to remove it..well, you might as well try to manually remove search.bearshare.