firefox - How do I get my home page back

02
2014-01
  • Questioner

    A couple of days ago I had my niece help me install a new anti-virus, as I suck at this sort of thing. Somewhere along the line, it was asked if I wanted the Ask-something or other and yes was checked. Didn’t think much of it at the time but now instead of my usual home page—Google—, it says Ask.

    How do I change it back to my original home page? It shows this whether I use Firefox or Internet Explorer

    • Answers
  • Andrew Lott

    There are two things you'll want to do, both described on the Ask.com FAQ.

    First, to uninstall the toolbar, depending on your version of Windows you'll go: Start Menu > Control Panel > Programs or Add or Remove Programs; Select the Ask Toolbar then click on Change or Remove or Uninstall.

    There are also instructions to change your homepage back, but you can get those directly from Mozilla or Microsoft.

  • Eugene Satterlund

    First uninstall toolbar.

    Opera browser: First go to google.com. Then click on Opera in the upper left hand corner, then go to settings, preferences, general, and click on use current.

    Internet Explorer: First go to google.com. Then click the gear icon in the upper right hand corner. Then internet options, use current.

    Firefox: First go to google.com. Then click tools, options, make sure it says when firefox starts show my homepage and then use current page.

    Chrome: First go to google.com. Make sure you don't have any other tabs open otherwise it will include those too. Click on the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right hand corner. Then setttings and go to where it says on start up choose Open a specific page or set of pages. Click on Set pages.


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  • Prashant

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    In the StumbleUpon toolbar for Firefox there is a "92" text displayed in the above pic; these are basically sites sent to me by my StumbleUpon friends. Whenever I have sites from my friends, that will be in the toolbar and when I click the Stumble button it shows those sites to me instead of any new sites.

    You can say these links are like new mails, so there are 92 new mails for me, but I don't want to check them - I just want to mark them as read in a single click, and move further to read other old mails.

    Is there any option to mark these sites (sent to me by my StumbleUpon friends) as read, so that when I click the Stumble button, new sites will be shown instead of sites sent to me by my friends?


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  • soldier.moth

    I am unable to test this as I don't have any sites stumbled to me currently, but what I would try would be to go to your StumbleUpon profile by clicking the gold star on the toolbar. Then click inbox, then recent shares. This may work because you are acknowledging that you have seen the pages and skip looking at the 92 pages, but you're going to have to try it and see if it works for sure.

  • Milde

    It doesn't seem to be possible yet, but I agree, that it would be a useful feature. The stumble-button and the button with the number of sites sent by your friends do the same (open a site sent by a friend).

    This would make more sense to me:

    • Stumble-Button: Get a new site.
    • "Inbox"-Button: Open a site, sent by a friend.

    Maybe send a mail to the developers :-)

  • Prashant

    I think StumbleUpon resolved this issue in new version of their toolbar. Now when you click on Stumble button it will not show sites sent to you by your friends. It will show stumbled (random) sites. And there is a new button for seeing what sites your friends sent you.