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Firefox no longer lets me set the home page. It's stuck on Bing.

wbutler
wbutler
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When I click on My Yahoo in the toolbar, it has a dropdown that says "set My Yahoo as your home page". It doesn't work anymore. I'm using Firefox 7, but it didn't work in Firefox 6 either. It keeps reverting to a search box for Bing. Should I just delete Bing? If so, how do I do that? Operating system is XP.

Thank you, Walker Butler

When I click on My Yahoo in the toolbar, it has a dropdown that says "set My Yahoo as your home page". It doesn't work anymore. I'm using Firefox 7, but it didn't work in Firefox 6 either. It keeps reverting to a search box for Bing. Should I just delete Bing? If so, how do I do that? Operating system is XP. Thank you, Walker Butler

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David McRitchie
David McRitchie
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How to Remove Bing as Your Default Search Engine and Get Firefox to Work the Way it Used to | eHow.com

http://www.ehow.com/how_5196325_remove-firefox-work-way-used.html

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL

Removing the Search Helper Extension and Bing Bar | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Removing%20the%20Search%20Helper%20Extension%20and%20Bing%20Bar

Make Google.com or any other page your home page

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page

Tools > Options Security

[x] Warn me when sites try to install add-ons
[x] Block reported attack sites
[x] Block reported web forgeries

Bring up the Control Panel, under Programs and Features, uninstall the Bing Bar

in case StartNow is not removed

Remove "Start Now" extension which puts Bing search into a new tab,
Tools > add-ons > Extensions or "Ctrl+Shift+A" > Extensions

then uninstall "StartNow" and restart Firefox. may be found in c:\program files (x86)\StartNow -- use the uninstaller in the StartNow folder.