WTF??

Something seems to have gone wrong with my Firefox browser. Even though it
is not set as such my homepage is now
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ . All my links are gone and I have
an IE looking toolbar. What the hell has gone wrong here? Will deleting the
Firefox browser and re-installing it fix this?

 

test firefox with a new profile.

 

How do you do that? Before finding this newsgroup this morning and reading a
few dozen posts, I was unaware there was any 'profile' associated with the
browser. Thanks.

 

In the RUN box type 'firefox --profilemanager'

 

i'm confused. are you trying to change your homepage? did you click
tools, options, and general? do you still have your old profile?
'cause i think i misunderstood your first post if all you're trying to
do is change your homepage. if you can change your homepage that way,
then you can delete your new profile unless you don't have copies of the
files you moved in your old profile. you'll need those files in your
old profile. you can also make mulitiple homepages by opening multiple
tabs before clicking tools, options, etc. when you get to general, you
can just click the first button. i'm sorry if i misunderstood you.

 

No I wasnt trying to change my homepage, it was changed for me. When I check
under internet options it is still the same, but when I open my browser it
takes me to that Mozilla page. As far as profiles go, I dont know anything
about that.

 

Try creating a new profile. In the Start >> RUN box type: "firefox
--profilemanager" (without the quotes). Then the Profile Manager will
start. Create a new profile. Name it whatever you want. Try using
Firefox with this new profile. See if you have the same problems. If
you want to switch back to your old profile, run the profile manager
again... but select your old profile.

 

Leroy,
It sounds like you may have the problem similar to the one I have been
having--except you didn't say whether Firefox still works or not as a
Browzer.. When mine went to the Mozilla.org site as a change in homepage, it
also lost the ability to open any webpages, including the Mozilla.org. All
it will do is come up with the error: Alert: could not find (URL)...

I thought I had ininstalled and deleted Mozilla from my PC. Come to find out
just now that in Tracker3 (A Windows Explorer-type application) I found the
Firefox was still in C;\Program Files and that the Name & Location box says
"backdoor.hackarmy.gen". That is a worm--I've had it before. So you may be
looking at something similar to that.

So now I need to get rid of the worm and start over with Firefox I have two
questions for somebody: Wouldn't uninstalling firefox and deleting the .zip
file delete the Profile also?
I have XP--what is the best version of Firefox for me?
Thanks, Wolfgang

Leroy,
It sounds like you may have the problem similar to the one I have been
having--except you didn't say whether Firefox still works or not as a
Browzer.. When mine went to the Mozilla.org site as a change in homepage, it
also lost the ability to open any webpages, including the Mozilla.org. All
it will do is come up with the error: Alert: could not find (URL)...

I thought I had ininstalled and deleted Mozilla from my PC. Come to find out
just now that in Tracker3 (A Windows Explorer-type application) I found the
Firefox was still in C;\Program Files and that the Name & Location box says
"backdoor.hackarmy.gen". That is a worm--I've had it before. So you may be
looking at something similar to that.

So now I need to get rid of the worm and start over with Firefox I have two
questions for somebody: Wouldn't uninstalling firefox and deleting the .zip
file delete the Profile also?
I have XP--what is the best version of Firefox for me?
Thanks, Wolfgang

 

Actually, it looks like he should try creating a new profile.

You should consider reporting the above information to one of the major
virus companies... because the type of activity you described isn't
listed anywhere (messing with the Firefox folder). Perhaps you have a
new variant.

The latest version.

 

This is driving me nuts. I deleted everything Mozilla related from my comp,
downloaded Firefox (again), ran the set-up and STILL all I get is THIS
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ . If you look on this page there is
no option for setting up a profile. In internet options I have yahoo.com set
as my homepage but when I open my browser I get
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ . When I first started using
Firefox a couple of months ago the set-up was easy as hell. Now it is just
hell. I sure dont want to continue using IE, but for now it seems I am stuck
with it.

 

I don't know if this will work, but in the address bar type in
about:config. Look for an entry called:

startup.homepage_override_url

double click on that and make your changes.

Andreas
--
Information wanted: http://www.ltinc.net/sass/

Panjandrum -- http://www.bartleby.com/61/47/P0044700.html

To contact me remove the NOSPAM

 

I did as you said and did not see that entry. I also did as Reg said in
another thread and used jv16PowerTool to remove all releated registry
entries and did a fresh download of Firefox. Still all I get is
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

 

Did you change the home page location in

Firefox-->Preferenceces-->General

 

Never could get that far. I've decided it must be a worm or virus and will
approach the problem from that angle.

 

Okay, you could try this. I looked through about:config and I've got
browser.startup.homepage user set string http://uk.my.yahoo.com/
browser.startup.homepage_override.1 default boolean false
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone user set string rv:1.7.3
browser.startup.page default integer 1

I don't know what the last two mean, but what do yours say, and if
different, try changing them to my values maybe? I'm using FF PR1.0

 

Never got that far?
Thats the FIRST thing you should do!
Regardless of a virus or trojan, if you have told the program to take
you to that page in preferences, it will!