How can I prevent a website from automatically loading in a new tab?
Every time I return to my home page, a different website keeps loading automatically in a new tab. How can I prevent this from happening?
الحل المُختار
Check the Home page setting:
- How to set the home page - Firefox supports multiple home pages separated by '|' symbols
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
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May or may not be the issue, check Tools / Options click the 'Tabs' TAB
If 'Open new windows in a new tab instead' is checked, remove the check and click OK!
Thanks! Tried it. Problem still exists.
الحل المُختار
Check the Home page setting:
- How to set the home page - Firefox supports multiple home pages separated by '|' symbols
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
Ah-HAH! The Home page setting was all I needed to check. The culprit had inserted itself along with my default. Removing it seems to have solved the problem . . . I think.
Thank you very much!
You're welcome