How difficult would it be to write a code that prevents sites from changing your homepage wtihout u knowing it happened?

Today I had the unhappy experience of a company or site I visited that installed three programs I didn't want. I uninstalled all of them in windows control panel (]remove programs). This however did not solve my problem.....no matter what I did I could not get startpage to come back. I did many things like go to tools and options and type it in close out and open and it was still not there. Finally my grandson uininstalled Firefox and reinstalled it and it was back.
My question is: Can you not write a code in the software that prevents this from happening and when people install Firefox ask them if they want this feature or write an ad on. Please this problem grows every day it gets worse. Before all you had to do is change it back now one can not get rid if it so easily.
We really would love this feature ask anyone.
Susan and TY for listening.

Thanks You for your feedback. However this is support forum, You should suggest new features trought ''Help -> Send Your opinion'' or [https://input.mozilla.org/pl/feedback/firefox/31.0/ this website].
By the way there is method described in [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences this support article], maybe someone using Windows will write user friendly guide how to do it.
All I can tell you is that you have to lock ''browser.startup.homepage'' to ''about:home''

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