I cannot remove some called "inbox" it has taken over in Firefox

Inbox is not a program. It is a place where email stores answers that come in. Hence "inbox"...

What email program are you using? I use Sylpheed which creates folders called "Inbox" "Sent" "Draft" "Trash" and "Queue"

What makes you think that "inbox" has removed Google as your browser? Google Chrome? Hav e you tried reinstalling it?

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go to www.inbox.com and have a look at this address
yes I did reinstall google chrome but this "inbox" came back

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Do you mean "homepage"? Google is not a browser, and nor is inbox.com -- they are simply web pages, which are display through the browser... Have you installed any plugins or extensions? Are you running firefox or chrome?

mycae does that explain it? Is the homepage changed/hijacked?

it may be. We need more info from the user. If the user is using firefox, then the best thing to do would be to move the .mozilla folder to some backup location to give the user a clean profile.

Hey, we need some more information from you! Please supply us with more so we can help you out. Thanks

Are you running the program Wine? Wine is a program that lets you run Microsoft Windows files in operating systems like Ubuntu. If you do have Wine on your system, it may have contracted a Windows virus and needs to be removed. www.winehq.org

I am new to this, so I will try to to explain what is happening, I am using Firefox to get onto the Internet, then it opens up into Google so I can search the net. For some reason it now opens up in "inbox" and I cant change it back to Google I have tried. How can I completely delete this from my computer. Thank you to all those who are helping me.

Thank you very much. This has got rid of that annoying problem, can I now delete mozilla backup folder. Thank you once again
John

you can delete the backup folder if you are sure there is nothing from your old profile that you need.