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fiestyvermin
fiestyvermin
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I am having a problem getting the home page to stay. I can go in and change the homepage it just will not stay. I downloaded a program that changed the home page but after uninstalling that program I am unable to get the home page to stay.

I am having a problem getting the home page to stay. I can go in and change the homepage it just will not stay. I downloaded a program that changed the home page but after uninstalling that program I am unable to get the home page to stay.

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TonyE
TonyE
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See the preferences are not saved article. A likely cause, as shown in that article, is the home page has been added to a file called user.js

cor-el
cor-el
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Other things that need attention.
See http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/

Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.

  1. Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12
  2. Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5
  3. Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_21 for Mozilla browsers
  4. Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 8.2.5

Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.

Update the Shockwave for Director plugin to the latest version.

Update the Java plugin to the latest version.

Update the Adobe Reader plugin to the latest version.