Sometimes, when you install programs on your system, they change your settings. ================================== Open a new window or tab. In the address bar, type '''''about:Config'''''. If a warning screen comes up, press the '''''Be Careful''''' button. This is where Firefox finds information it needs to run. At the top of the screen is a search bar. Enter '''''browser.newtab.url''''' and press enter. '''''browser.newtab.url''''' tells Firefox what to show when a new tab is opened. If you want, right click and select '''''Modify'''''. You can change the setting to;<BR><BR>about:home (Firefox default home page),<BR> about:newtab (shows the sites most visited),<BR> about:blank (a blank page),<BR> or you can enter any web page you want.<BR><BR> The same instructions are used for the new window setting, listed as '''''browser.startup.homepage'''''. ======================== It’s very sad, but many of the software down-loaders / installers will trick you into installing not only their program, '''''but other programs as well'''''. You have heard of the '''''fine print in shady contracts''''', right? Well, some installers you need to look at the '''''itsy bitsy teeny weeny fine print'''''. You are thinking you are giving the installer permission to install the program you want by using the '''''recommended''''' option. But if you use the '''''Manual Option Instead''''', you discover all kinds of stuff that '''''you do not even know what it is or what it does'''''. From now on, everyone needs to '''''Use The Manual Option''''' to put a stop to this.