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an attempt to replace your homepage settings has been blocked.
Topic Started: Jun 16 2013, 05:32 PM (279 Views)
Daniel
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So I had set my homepage as blank and set my settings to show the homepage icon and the bookmarks bar.

For a few days it looked as if everything was fine. Then yesterday, when opening Chrome, I got a message that said it could not read my settings. When it opened, my settings had disappeared (no homepage icon, no bookmarks bar).

That's when I decided to uninstall Chrome. Deep scan everything (nothing found). Reboot. And download the latest Chrome (from Cnet, not from Google - didn't like what it was doing).

Today after making sure everything was fine and running well, I installed Google Chrome. Upon opening the very first time, the " attempt to replace your homepage settings has been blocked" came back.

The message gives you two options: 1) to keep your homepage (Recommended); 2) to use the homepage of the third party.

This time I selected the homepage of the third party. Then I reset my homepage (to a real website), reset my settings to show the homepage icon and to show the bookmarks bar.

Guess what? It worked (so far). It turned out "an attempt to replace your homepage settings" was being done by me. This message was actually a validation, something like, "Are you sure you want to change the homepage?"

Whoever wrote the message should have made it more clear. What was confusing was that it wasn't a message when I was changing my Chrome settings. It was a message that popped out from the notification area of the Windows taskbar. Secondly, the wording made it sound like malware was hijacking my browser, when it was actually me that's changing my homepage.

Thanks everybody. I hope this is the solution.
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Trotsky
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Daniel,

Why not switch back to Internet Explorer? Especially if you have a machine running on Windows. I mean really, who would be driving a Ford and replace the transmission from one made by Chevvy?

Personally I find Google and Chrome the pushiest annoyances on the Internet. They do not know how to take NO for an answer. Can't they understand that some people want Google for a Search Engine and not for any other reason? (That's rhetorical- of course they cannot.)
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Daniel
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Trotsky
Jun 23 2013, 01:29 AM
Daniel,

Why not switch back to Internet Explorer?...
It goes back to the days when the court ruled that Microsoft was behaving like a bully, forcing IE on Windows users and has to allow users the choice to use Netscape.

I may not be successful but I try not to give any one company total control. Even within Chrome, I set DuckDuckGo as my home page. (Before yesterday, Chrome wasn't accepting DuckDuckGo as a homepage. It accepted blank, thestar.com, etc until that "attempt" message removed the homepage, but never for DuckDuckgo.)

Your analogy is that when you maintain or repair your car, you don't have to use the original namebrand parts. Compatible equivalents are totally acceptable and does not void the warranty as long as the maintenance schedule is followed. So who would go to the trouble and effort to find an equivalent Chevvy part that can be used in a Ford? It's possible but highly unlikely. Whereas generic parts from an auto shop like Canadian Tire bet their reputation on their parts being compatible or they go out of business.

The same would go for software companies or they go out of business.
Edited by Daniel, Jun 23 2013, 05:16 AM.
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Trotsky
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Anyone who saw Microsoft as the pushy monster of a decade ago should see how Google is following the same playbook.

My feeling is that Microsoft has designed Internet Explorer to play nice with Windows. Since I had to buy Windows to get my computers, I might as well have nice play between OS and browser.

If I decided to run on Ubuntu, perhaps I might feel different.

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