Seem to be hijacked by Babylon

Abby Sale

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Sep 14, 2012, 8:41:21 AM9/14/12

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New symptoms have appeared - I'm not sure they are connected.

Using FF 15.0.1
on Win 7, home premium, 64-bit

Babylon seems to have made a grand effort to capture my browsing.

In IE (I just mention - I rarely use IE; only do so after I've
complained to some backward web page they should get a refund from their
programmers who forgot to check for FF) it captured the home page but I
was able to reset that using its ordinary options.

I found two programs titled Babylon in Windows Add/Remove and removed
them.

I'm only left with the Add Tab +. I like it to come up as the Default
of recent pages but it always comes up Babylon Search.

I updated to FF 15.0.1 at this point - it appeared to be very unhappy
checking compatibility with Babylon. Said it checked ok but hung up at
that point and gave no further. I Closed.

Did what I could from the Help and Forum pages - Disabled all Plug-ins
and restarted in Safe mode. - Still got that Babylon new tab in Safe
mode and also on booting the computer.

Looking at Add-ons, I'm confused.

Get Add-ons works ok now - had been hanging with ver 14.

Extensions was blank with ver 14. Now it shows several items. Babylon
was there. I disabled, Removed and booted. No diff.

There is also something called NewTabUrl 2.2.3 set to Home Page.
Disabling has no effect on the new tab. Updated to Sept 8th, no effect.

Appearance is Default 15.0.1

Plugins shows many, I think all of them legit and requested.

Recent Updates only showed Default 15.0.1

How do I get rid of Babylon controlling New Tab?

Thank you.
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RVG

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Sep 14, 2012, 5:40:19 PM9/14/12

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Le 14/09/2012 14:41, Abby Sale a �crit :

>
> New symptoms have appeared - I'm not sure they are connected.
>
> Using FF 15.0.1 on Win 7, home premium, 64-bit
>
> Babylon seems to have made a grand effort to capture my browsing.

> How do I get rid of Babylon controlling New Tab?
>

I'd try creating a new profile. Backup your bookmarks and passwords
*only*, then reload them into your new profile, then reinstall the
add-ons you know to be safe.

Mozbackup can help you do that.

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

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Ralph Fox

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Sep 14, 2012, 5:44:06 PM9/14/12

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On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:50:51 -0400 and Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:41:21 -0400,
Abby Sale wrote:

> New symptoms have appeared - I'm not sure they are connected.
>
> Using FF 15.0.1
> on Win 7, home premium, 64-bit
>
> Babylon seems to have made a grand effort to capture my browsing.
>

> In IE (I just mention - I rarely use IE; only after I've complained gto
> some backward web page they should get a refund from their programmers)
> it captured the home page but I was able to reset that using its usual
> options.
>
> I found two programs titled Babylon in my Add/Remove and removed them.
>
> I'm only left with the Add Tab +. I like it to come up as the default
> of recent pages but it comes up Babylon Search.

>
> I updated to FF 15.0.1 at this point - it appeared to be very unhappy

> checking compatability with Babylon. Said it checked ok but hung up at

> that point and gave no further. I Closed.
>
> Did what I could from the Help and Forum pages - Disabled all Plug-ins

> and restarted in Safe mode. - Still got that new tab in Safe mode and

> on booting the computer.
>
> Looking at Add-ons, I'm confused.
>
> Get Add-ons works ok now - had been hanging with ver 14.
>

> Extensions was blank with ver 14. Now shows several items. Babylon was

> there. I disabled, Removed and booted.
>

> There is also something called NewTabUrl 2.2.3 set to Home Page.

> Disabling has no effect on the new tab. Updated to Sept 8, no effect.
>
> Appearance is Default 15.0.1
>
> Plugins shows many, I' believe all of them legit and requested.

>
> Recent Updates only showed Default 15.0.1
>

> How do I get rid og Babylon controlling New Tab?
>
> Thank you.

For a standard baseline Firefox 15.0.1 (no extensions), this is how to
restore the default page which appears when you open a new tab.

1.1 Enter the following in the URL bar and press ENTER
about:config

1.2 If you see a message "This might void your warranty",
click "I'll be careful, I promise".

1.3 In the "Search" box, type newtab

1.4 In the list underneath, right-click on the preference name
"browser.newtab.url" and choose "Reset" from the right-click menu.

I do not use either Add Tab + or NewTabUrl 2.2.3, and I do not know whether
these extensions require a different fix.

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Kind regards
Ralph

Abby Sale

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Sep 14, 2012, 10:09:43 PM9/14/12

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Geez!

That was understandable, easy and it _worked_!

Thank you.

Abby Sale

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Sep 14, 2012, 10:12:42 PM9/14/12

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Thank you for the reply. I appreciate it.

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:40:19 +0200, RVG <not....@themoment.invalid.org>
wrote:

>Le 14/09/2012 14:41, Abby Sale a écrit :
>>
>> New symptoms have appeared - I'm not sure they are connected.
>>
>> Using FF 15.0.1 on Win 7, home premium, 64-bit
>>
>> Babylon seems to have made a grand effort to capture my browsing.
>
>> How do I get rid of Babylon controlling New Tab?
>>
>
>I'd try creating a new profile. Backup your bookmarks and passwords
>*only*, then reload them into your new profile, then reinstall the
>add-ons you know to be safe.
>
>Mozbackup can help you do that.
>
>http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/