i want to change my new tab setting to google
since last update my home page is still google but new tabs open in yahoo which is a not as good as google i want my new tabs to open as google not yahoo
might seam simple to you but i cant change to what i want and will give up firefox if i cant get this to happen as i am finding it frustrating.
if i forget to click on home i can never find what i want with yahoo but google almost always gets me were i want to go
i dont want to mess about reading this artical i want help from firefox
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Hi, try this: Type about:config into the address bar, press Enter, accept the warning, scroll down to browser.newtab.url and right click > Modify, to enter the URL of your choice - eg. google.com. You may then need to restart Firefox.
More info near the bottom of this article - Customize your Firefox New Tab page.
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
If you do not keep changes after a restart or otherwise have problems with preferences, see:
I have this problem too. I am an avid Firefox user and run on Linux, lates FF 41.0b3 is fucked! about:config/newtab/www.google.com not working :( C'ya next upgrade
In Firefox 41 that 'browser.newtab.url pref is gone. That pref was being hijacked by malware too frequently so Mozilla decided to remove that pref to eliminate that type of hijack, You will need an extension such as this to restore it. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/?src=ss