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Thread #152774   Message #3573888
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
08-Nov-13 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Firefox: How make homepage change stick
Subject: Tech: Firefox: How make homepage change stick
I have what may be one, or maybe it's two separate problems in FireFox. This is a fairly new version of FireFox, running on Windows 7.

Recently my homepage on FireFox changed from WWW.CNN.COM to (you should pardon the expression) Bing.

I dragged the CNN icon to the HOME icon, which yielded a popup window, "Do you want this to be your homepage?" I clicked yes. This immediately DID change the display to CNN. Success???? No. Next time I got on the web by means of FireFox, the homepage shown was again Bing.

I don't like Bing, and I won't use Bing. I can temporarily get onto Google all right, but, like the homepage change, it won't stick.

So I have two problems, which may at root be one problem.

1. How can I make FireFox call CNN.COM as the homepage? The nominal fix is to drag the CNN.COM icon from its position just at the left end of the navigation input slot to the "little House", the Home button, but that changes the screen to CNN without making a durable change in Homepage.

2. I want the default search engine to be Google, and frankly, if I can I would like to remove Bing from the computer. The Control Panel's Change or Uninstall Programs function doesn't show Bing as even being present.

Anybody know what I can do? JiK?

Dave Oesterreich