How do I set up a different default browser other than firefox?
I would like my juno email page to come up everytime I open a new page but I can't seem to figure out how to change my default browser. Right now anytime I open a new tab the search engine is blank and it shows avg search engine. No matter what I put in the search engine after it goes to that page the search engine goes blank again. Because it keeps going blank it also keeps bringing you back up to it. So you might click on something and start writing and next thing you know you're writing in the browser again all because it disapears. It's very annoying. I want to get it off the avg search engine so I stop having these problems. I use to always have it open to my email start page so I would like to do that again or anything else if it will stop going to avg and it will keep what I ask for in the browser.
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Normally, Firefox will fill the new tab page with 9 thumbnails for your frequently visited sites. You can change that to the Juno URL if you like. Here's how:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste newtab and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.newtab.url preference and enter your preferred page:
- Page thumbnails (default) => about:newtab
- Blank tab => about:blank
- Built-in Firefox home page => about:home
- Any other page => full URL to the page you may want to copy this from another tab first for easier pasting
Press Ctrl+t to open a new tab and verify that it worked. Fixed?
- If Firefox refuses to save the change, check your Windows Control Panel, Uninstall a Program, for something named Search Protect and get rid of it.
- If Firefox ignores the change, one of your extensions may be overriding it. You can review, disable, and/or remove extensions on the add-ons page:
3-bar menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons > in the left column click Extensions
IMPORTANT: Your More System Details shows a user.js file in your profile. Firefox will use this file at startup to override your previous session settings. This article describes how to track down and remove the file: How to fix preferences that won't save.
Any luck?
I skipped over the search engine problem. Normally you can change this by clicking the icon at the left end of the search bar to drop down a list of available search engines. Does that work? If not, this extension will reset it back to Google (but it also changes your home page and new tab page back to defaults, too).