Monday, January 7, 2008

Fix for hijacked firefox homepage


  • It seems like other low and dirty software companies have done similar things in the past using the user.js file that overrides the default Firefox settings and I was able to find info on how those were fixed - knowing that, here is how to fix it:

    1. Close any open FireFox windows
    2. Using Windows Explorer, go to
    C:\Documents and Settings\ (user name) \Application
    Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(random letters) .default
    3. Open the “User.js” file in notepad.
    4. Delete the line that reads:
    user_pref(browser.startup.homepage, http://www.rocketdivision.com);
    5. Save and close the document, then restart FireFox
    6. Surf to the page you want as your homepage.
    7. Click on Tools then select Options from the drop down menu
    8. In the General Screen, there will be a section titled “Home
    Page”. From here, click the “Use Current Page” button to set your
    homepage.


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    1 comment:

    Bill said...

    Thank you I would have never figured it out.

    Thanks for the tip.