Traditional start up page NOT Babylon

For years I started with the traditional Firefox start page.
(Box to enter a search parameter or question)
All of a sudden it opens with Babylon. I can not even find Babylon in my list of Programs. I can not get rid of it either.

For details of how to reset the home page, see the [[how to set the home page]] article.
To remove Babylon, a couple of places to check. First check the Firefox add-ons manager to see if there is a Babylon extension installed, for details on doing that see [[uninstalling add-ons]].
The next place to check is the Windows Control Panel's add/remove programs dialog. For details on using that see [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307895 how to change or remove a program in Windows XP]

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See title. The apology rings hollow if you hide what it is that you won't resolve.
For example, what possible use does this give anyone?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/error/notfound#c0f755e7-3bcf-4dc1-806e-13b977df7e98
In fact, it is a consequence of broken branding:
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I.e. I was using the MVPForums as a starting point to look at My Threads, found one which was too big to open in a preview (201 posts) and middle-clicked on the Last Reply link, intending to look at it later (since I have Middle-click set up to open
new background tabs which can load while I go and do something else.) So coming back to a tab with no more context than a fragment for a Message-ID of an unknown thread is almost totally useless and requires me to go back and try to figure out what I
had done to generate that.
I even tried using View Source to try to find MVP in it, in case the URL would be embedded as a comment instead of as a link but no such luck. It really is a useless, very irritating diagnostic, made even more irritating by the very hollow "we're
sorry" years after this usability defect has been complained about.
BTW to add to my irritation over this there was also a horrible search experience, knowing that there were some current relevant threads in this forum but not being able to find them, using either the pathetic "relevance" filter which finds
ones that are too old or the OR-implied but non-Boolean-expression date filters which show nothing relevant.
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what's the value of including the URL of the page that you can't access?
So I could edit out the broken branding in the Address bar of a tab long after it was put there. That way if I miss the clue in the tab label that my launch didn't work I don't need to retrace my steps to try to figure out why it was there.
I was going to give you a more detailed example using a different thread and then thought I could do it with exactly this message. In addition I thought I would find out if there were any problems caused by branding when posting.
So, here is where Last Reply should go and therefore what should appear in my Address bar if I chose to open it in a new tab:
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/mvpforum/en-US/2d07727b-7909-49d1-8f51-8f018ecdf3bb/page-not-found-redirect-needs-to-include-the-original-url?forum=reportabug#6f40fae0-3fb1-4ef0-96dc-f12f423b28fa
Using Middleclick on it made me think it had worked. E.g. the Tab label started out "Page Not Fou..." In fact, it did work but not for an example of what I wanted to demonstrate. That link can be branded when opened in its own
tab.
So, here is the one which gave me the idea that you might need an example.
Right-click, Copy Shortcut from a Last Reply link from a TechNet item in My Threads:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/mvpforum/en-US/a4a7cc99-a49a-42a8-b2af-aff748623c34/windows-8-does-not-go-to-sleep-how-to-identify-the-deviceapp-preventing-sleep?forum=w8itprogeneral#30d98549-b381-4f69-ad09-6de25cd79316
Notice the mvpforum branding in the link? That is all that needs to be erased. Notice the GUID for the thread? Leaving me that at least could be useful. Instead, here is what "Page Not Fou..."s Address bar contains:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/error/notfound#30d98549-b381-4f69-ad09-6de25cd79316
Useless--unless you can give me a search for
Msgid(30d98549-b381-4f69-ad09-6de25cd79316)
that can reliably find that thread.
Robert Aldwinckle

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Ok. I disabled hardware acceleration. The only extension is the McAfee Scriptscan for Firefox 15.1.0, which was already disabled. I then disabled all plugins (Acrobat, Google Update, Intel Identity Protection (2x), Java Deployment Toolkit, Java Platform, MS Office 2013, Quicktime, Shockwave, Silverlight), which were all up to date.
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