How do I safely uninstall Genieo from FireFox from Laptop on OS 10.6.8?

April 7 I wanted to download a free book from a Google search (Concluding Unscientific Postscript by Soren Kierkegaard) in PDF format, in following the prompts I wound up with a homepage called Genieo. It has a clickable "Remove Genieo" but requested your Mac password to proceed. Alarmed, I backed out at that point! I turned off wi-fi and was able to delete it from my Applications folder, and do a secure empty trash, but it continues to exist and come up as my browser home page. I don't use it, but want to get rid of it. THANKS!

Hello MitchHarned, check if the instruction in the next article is helpful :
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20set%20the%20home%20page How to set the home page]
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