How to stop some URLS to crush my homepage setting

I use Firefox v24.0 on a 2.7 Ghz Intel core i5 Mac under OS X 10.8.5. Some sites seem to be able to replace my home without my permission page layout, I certainly don't want to. How can I configure FF so that ONLY I can change this setting and no one and nothing else can?
Thank you
Brian Wootton

Yes, from your description, it seems that the lock file is wrong in force - once it works it must be very obvious...

Please make sure that the two lines are present in /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/defaults/pref/local-settings.js:

pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");

and once again /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/mozilla.cfg should look like this:

//
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/");

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