change the homepage

Is it possible to 'lock' the homepage so apps can not change? Sometimes I install new programs to evaluate them and they change my homepage. I'm using Firefox 3.6.12. Thank you!

The following method will not prevent the homepage change, but whenever you start Firefox, it starts again home page return to the one you want if it has been changed.

  1. First you have to open the profile folder, for details on how to do this see the article of profiles - where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data .
  2. Close Firefox and using a text editor create a file called user.js (this file may already exist)
  3. Add the following line to user.js, using the homepage you want.
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.google.com/");

For more information about this file, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

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