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everytime while opening a new window/tab in firefox a new tab with the "Einstellungen" appears automatically.

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hello,

the problem is: everytime when I open a new window/tab in firefox a new tab "Einstellungen" appears automatically. for example: I pressed the home-button - in this case google - and i got google in this tab ....and automatically another tab with the settings of mozilla. see the pic

I use mozilla firefox 43.0 under ubuntu linux.

thx for help

robert

hello, the problem is: everytime when I open a new window/tab in firefox a new tab "Einstellungen" appears automatically. for example: I pressed the home-button - in this case google - and i got google in this tab ....and automatically another tab with the settings of mozilla. see the pic I use mozilla firefox 43.0 under ubuntu linux. thx for help robert

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Firefox uses a vertical bar ('|') to separate multiple home pages. You can check the home page setting to see if the about:preferences page is included as one of the home pages (|about:preferences#general).

This can happen if you click "Use Current Page(s)" to set the home page and about:preferences is open in a tab. You can pin the tab with the about:preferences page via the right-click context menu of the tab to prevent including about:preferences to the home page setting if you want to use this button in "Options/Preferences > General". To set a single page as the home page you can drag the globe/padlock to the toolbar Home button.

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see here the pic

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Type about:config<enter> in the address bar. If a warning screen comes up, press the Be Careful button. At the top of the screen is a search bar. Type browser.startup.homepage.

Carefully check it's value.

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@FredMcD: pls see the new pic ...what to do?

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Looking at the value of the browser.startup.homepage pref I'd say Firefox does exactly what you told it to do. That's opening the two URLs you specified.

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problem solved: deleting the passage "about:preferences#general in the preferences of the startpage is the solution!

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Firefox uses a vertical bar ('|') to separate multiple home pages. You can check the home page setting to see if the about:preferences page is included as one of the home pages (|about:preferences#general).

This can happen if you click "Use Current Page(s)" to set the home page and about:preferences is open in a tab. You can pin the tab with the about:preferences page via the right-click context menu of the tab to prevent including about:preferences to the home page setting if you want to use this button in "Options/Preferences > General". To set a single page as the home page you can drag the globe/padlock to the toolbar Home button.

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cor-el said

Firefox uses a vertical bar ('|') to separate multiple home pages. You can check the home page setting to see if the about:preferences page is included as one of the home pages (|about:preferences#general). This can happen if you click "Use Current Page(s)" to set the home page and about:preferences is open in a tab. You can pin the tab with the about:preferences page via the right-click context menu of the tab to prevent including about:preferences to the home page setting if you want to use this button in "Options/Preferences > General". To set a single page as the home page you can drag the globe/padlock to the toolbar Home button.
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hi cor-el,

thx for your answer, which helped me very much.

greets robert