Where does Bablyon still appear?

• Hijacks built-in home page (about:home) search box
• Replaces home page with its own URL
• In a new tab (instead of the thumbnails or your preferred page)

It appears when I open Firefox. After changing the homepage to my default or some other page, I close Firefox and open it again, and there it comes again, some babylon search engine that I have already uninstalled and "cleaned" from my system. It also happened when opening a new tab, but that's already taken care of, my biggest problem is with my Firefox homepage.

Thanks for your reply.

There are a couple of ways to override your settings changes. You could check for a user.js file here:

Help > Troubleshooting Information > Show Folder

This is your active Firefox personal settings folder (AKA your profile folder). If you find a file named user.js, you could rename it (e.g., user-old.js). This should prevent the contents of user.js from changing your preferences at your next startup.

If there is a problem with the build-in about:home page then try to reset the search engine used on the about:home page.

Reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref via the right-click context menu to the default on the about:config page and close and restart Firefox to restore the about:home page to its default.

   http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config 

   Open the about:config page via the location bar
   Type in the Filter bar: mstone
   Right-click the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone line and select: Reset
   Close and restart Firefox 

If this didn't help then delete the delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox Profile Folder and repeat the above.

See these pages about Babylon Toolbar:

   http://support.babylon.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/48/english-faq
   http://support.babylon.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/37/installation--technical-support 

   /questions/746530 How do I fully remove Babylon

Hi jscher2000, smo: I have already tried everything you suggested, but anything seems to solve it. Deleted the user.js file, but couldn't find the *_override.mstone entry. Perhaps I'm still missing something, when this babylon crap started happening, I first uninstalled it without disabling or removing the add-on from Firefox, so I reinstalled the babylon toolbar, disabled the add-on, removed it and then uninstalled it again, then cleaned all registry data referring to babylon, reset every Babylon entry in the about:config page, but it still comes out as my homepage every time I open Firefox. I even tried to change the search engine, but it comes back again with babylon. I think I'm giving up on this, I have no idea what else to do and it's very frustrating. If I find something else, I will tell.

Thanks

If you notice that settings changes revert after a restart and there is no explanation, another possibility is a corrupted settings file. Please see this article: How to fix preferences that won't save.

Make sure that you have uninstalled all Babylon related programs from your control Panel. this includes Babylon, Browser Protection, etc.

You can try some of the following programs to scan for malware:

• MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware
• TDSSKiller - AntiRootkit Utility
• Microsoft Security Essentials (A good permanent anti-virus if you don't already have one)

Further information can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware article.

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SOLVED :)

Check this Vid  :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQC7dSVft0

How To Remove babylon Toolbar From Firefox :

http://www.hthints.com/2012/08/how-to-remove-babylon-toolbar-from.html

Thanks a lot

I had this problem as well. It's necessary to remove the 'browser manager'.

Check this page: http://www.explosiveknowledge.net/main/2012/08/19/browsemngr/

Just remove the subkey "Browser Manager" from this registery folders:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\

and the entry "{b64982b1-d112-42b5-b1e4-d3867c4533f8}" in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\

I'm still looking how to delete the folder C:\ProgramData\Browser Manager..

Thanks to everyone, I didn't remove the Browser Manager before since I thought it was a built in software for every browser. Also deleted the registry and now homepage is not overriden by that annoying babylon thing. Thanks again.

OK so this question has been asked many times yet noone gets the right answer. So here it is.

1. Dont worry about playing with registras you might delete something you shouldn't. revo uninstaller takes 2 secs to download and makes no mistakes.

2. download revo uninstaller it will show a list of your programs, delete the ones to do with babylon. It will then give you the option to delete anything else attached to these programs, click ok and when it brings up a list you need to select everything in bold writing. then press delete. this will clear everything from your computer. (this is the biggest problem gone)

3. Now you have to deal with firefox.

4. click the arrow button beside the search box on the top right of your screen, then select manage search options. select babylon if it is there and delete it.

5. select firefox top left (presumably) of your screen, then select add-ons, then select extensions, delete babylon and anything unusual.

6. type about:config into your search bar where it usually displays the webite you are visiting (www.blahblah.com) for example. press enter. when it gives you a warning press ok and continue.

7. type babylon in the seach at top of screen in "about:config" right click everything in bold letters and then click reset.

8.now search "homepage" and double click "browser.startup.homepage" and change to www.google.com or whatever your preference is.

9. now search 'new tab" and doubleclick "browser.newtab.url" and change to www.google.com or whatever. This is for what you want to open when you open a new tab.

note: you can reset your homepage and your new tab if you want it to go back to default.

10. go to firefox at topleft of your screen and select options then select general beside where it says "when firefox starts" select show my homepage and change the address box what you want the homepage to be eg www.google.com.

If that doesn't get it. then you will have to pay someone. this worked for me and I had babylon riddled through my computer. Babylon = pathetic team of human being. get a real job you bunch of dicks!