I get 2 firefox and mozilla tabs that override my home page

when I open the browser I get 2 pages "welcome to Firefox" and another tab opens at the same time "Mozilla Firefox start page. I do not want either. I tried and tried to set my home page both ways and when I open firefox again it goes back to the 2 pages I described I just want it fixed so I do not have the tabs and I have my home page open at start
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== a few days ago

See this article for some suggestions: [[Firefox has just updated tab shows each time you start Firefox]]
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved and [[Preferences are not saved]]
[[How to set the home page]]: Firefox supports multiple home pages separated by '|' symbols

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