Firefox always launches with three tabs -- my home page, a month old site from Slate and Huffington Post. Even uninstalling and reintalling doesnt solve problem.
Every time Firefox is launched, it opens with three tabs -- my home page, a month-old age from the slate website and the home page from the huffington post. EVERYTIME. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox and the problem persists.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== May 15, 2010
Hello Kenneth.
See this article to see if you have those three tabs set as your home pages: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page
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Instead of opening on my homepage, firefox opens on blank page, it says new tab.
If I open it and open a second browser instance while the first is still open, the second instance will go to my home page as it should. I have tried reinstalling firefox.Sorry but this didnt help.
What happens is When I open firefox instead of going to my homepage which I set to Google.com via the options. It just opens a blank tab. Before if I opened firefox there was no tab unless I clicked on the little plus sign. It clearly states New Tab on the first thing when opened.I tried the
:New Tab Page – show, hide and customize top sites: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-tab-page-show-hide-and-customize-top-sites#w_how-do-i-turn-the-new-tab-page-off. Did exactly as told but when I turn on firefox, same old thing. Now the weird part is if I open firefox I get what I just described, it opens with a blank new tab. But if I leave that instance open and open a 2nd browser, it opens to Google and looks fine! Very irritating . Also If I change the home page to Firefox homepage it works fine everytime. Seems they only want me going to thier page. -
That's SwitchHosts. Uninstalled it, removed from profile, but still FF starts with New tab and not Home Page. Is there a line in about:config that needs changing???
That didn't work. But, I did remember to do a System Restore, and that seems to have fixed it. SwitchHosts is no friend of mine. Even the MVP program has limits. I wish these programs did not try to take over my computer and they should have good uninstall features.
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realm="Authorized_Users", nonce="5ffd0968214765fd49bccc784d1fd017", uri="/content/dav/", nc=00000001, cnonce="fYvHyrSPXcJoa18j", qop=auth,
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Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.EcmDavServlet] [23] FINER: CALYPSO-CONTROL: H_Req,167899158,7777
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.EcmDavServlet] [23] FINER: CHRONOS: aggregate
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.EcmDavServlet] [23] FINER: CLIENTIP: 10.1.200.129
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.EcmDavServlet] [23] FINER: CONNECTION: Keep-Alive, Calypso-Control
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Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.EcmDavServlet] [23] FINER: SURROGATE-CAPABILITY: orcl="webcache/1.0
Surrogate/1.0 ESI/1.0 ESI-Inline/1.0 ESI-INV/1.0 ORAESI/9.0.4"
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(build 105)
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.EcmDavServlet] [23] FINER: X-FEATURES: 1
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= null; Osso-User-Dn = null; Osso-User-Guid = null; Osso-Subscriber = null; Osso-Subscriber-Dn = null; Osso-Subscriber-Guid = null
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavSessionManager] [23] FINER: No session found in the
HttpSession
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavSessionManager] [23] FINER: DAV client detected, trying
persistent cookie
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavSessionManager] [23] FINER: Trying digest headers
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavDigestSessionManager] [23] FINER: DigestAuthInfo =
Digest username=dla, nonce=5ffd0968214765fd49bccc784d1fd017, response=e9ba4664ee39abf27c787b7ba7b96177, cnonce=fYvHyrSPXcJoa18j, qop=auth,
nc=00000001, realm=Authorized_Users, uri=/content/dav/, algorithm=MD5
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavDigestSessionManager] [23] FINER: credential = oracle.ifs.common.HttpDigestCredential@1d4c4b7
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavDigestSessionManager] [23] FINER: no session in nonce-cache
for user dla
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.impl.security.DigestAuthentication] [23] FINE: Valid nonce
table dump:
Nouvelle entrée Nonce: 5ffd0968214765fd49bccc784d1fd017; Expires: Wed Jan 28 15:55:06 CET 2009
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.fdk.http.HttpAuthManager] [23] FINE: servlet path = /dav
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.fdk.impl.SessionPool] [23] FINE: Creating LibrarySession pool for user:
dla
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.fdk.impl.SessionPool] [23] FINE: Creating new LibrarySession ...
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.fdk.impl.SessionPool] [23] FINE: Freeing LibrarySession pool: [User: dla;
Avail = 0; In Use = 0; Total = 0; References = 0; MaxUsed = 0]
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavDigestSessionManager] [23] FINER: session = null
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavSessionManager] [23] FINER: Returning null
Nouvelle entrée 09/01/28 15:45:06 [ecid: 77338626691,2] content: [oracle.ifs.protocols.dav.ecm.DavDigestSessionManager] [23] FINER: authHeader = Digest
realm="Authorized_Users", nonce="5ffd0968214765fd49bccc784d1fd017", stale="false", qop="auth"
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