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My fire fox opens up on website named " hi.ru" can anyone help get rid of it?

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I do not how it happened but recently chrome and firefox have been opening up with a website named "hi.ru " I searched on google and found a youtube video that said to go on the property of both and delete the extension"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_VCnslDykc" , it worked on chrome but not firefox my antivirus and malwarebytes are not helping! what to do?

I do not how it happened but recently chrome and firefox have been opening up with a website named "hi.ru " I searched on google and found a youtube video that said to go on the property of both and delete the extension"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_VCnslDykc" , it worked on chrome but not firefox my antivirus and malwarebytes are not helping! what to do?

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How are you opening Firefox?


Type about:preferences#general<enter> in the address bar.

There are two settings;

  • When Firefox Starts

When the browser is started, what do you want to display. Many of us choose Show My Home Page.

  • Home Page

When a new page is opened, what do you want displayed.

  1. Use Current Page. Use what ever page(s) are open at that time.
  2. Use Bookmark
  3. Restore To Default. about:home shows a Mozilla home page with tools.

You can use any of these that you wish;

about:home (Firefox default home page), about:newtab (shows the sites most visited), about:blank (a blank page),

or you can enter any web page or about: page you want.

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Didn't work for me as it continues to show Hi.ru on starting Firefox

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