as soon as I open firefox it starts opening screen after screen after screen of ads so I finally closed and uninstalled

the sentence preceding says it all. tab after tab or window ads. Finally stops after 10. uninstalled once but like firefox so tried again after an interval of six months. Windows 8 on "wisebook".

You have run the scans of hard-ware above?
What's your homepage? Check and make sure. It may have changed.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the < shift >
(Mac options)
key and then from Firefox. Is always the problem?

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