New tabs automatically go to Yahoo search in Firefox 39, I want to get stop this.
I am running Windows 10 with Firefox version 39. Every time I open a new tab a Yahoo search page comes up. I have deleted all of Yahoo's stuff off of my laptop. I have no Yahoo toolbar, etc left. I also removed Yahoo as a search engine option. Only DuckDuckGo is available to search. I have read over previous posts on how to remove this, but they are all over 203 years old and do not seem to follow version 39's options. How do I remove this very annoying feature. I do not want to do this, but if I cannot resolve this I will start using the Edge browser. On a side note, there is no extensions.netassistant, etc on this machine. I have gone into through the config and cannot find it, nor do I see anything along this lines in programs available for removal. Any help and or insight would be most appreciated. Thank you
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Here's how you can change your new tab page:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. 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
Press Ctrl+t to open a new tab and verify that it worked. Fixed?
If problems persist, some potential diagnoses and remedies:
If Firefox won't let you edit this setting: you may have something called SearchProtect on your system. This needs to be removed from the Windows Control Panel. If the status says "locked" we will need to help you investigate an "autoconfig" file.
If Firefox lets you save your change but ignores it: one of your extensions may be overriding it. You can review, disable, and/or remove extensions on the add-ons page. Either:
- Ctrl+Shift+a (Mac: Command+Shift+a)
- "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons
In the left column, click Extensions. Then cast a critical eye over the list on the right and disable (or remove) anything unknown.
If the change works during your session, but at the next startup is back to the unwanted page: you might have a user.js file in your personal Firefox settings folder (your Firefox profile folder). This article describes how to track down and remove the file: How to fix preferences that won't save.
Any luck?
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Solution choisie
Here's how you can change your new tab page:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. 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
Press Ctrl+t to open a new tab and verify that it worked. Fixed?
If problems persist, some potential diagnoses and remedies:
If Firefox won't let you edit this setting: you may have something called SearchProtect on your system. This needs to be removed from the Windows Control Panel. If the status says "locked" we will need to help you investigate an "autoconfig" file.
If Firefox lets you save your change but ignores it: one of your extensions may be overriding it. You can review, disable, and/or remove extensions on the add-ons page. Either:
- Ctrl+Shift+a (Mac: Command+Shift+a)
- "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons
In the left column, click Extensions. Then cast a critical eye over the list on the right and disable (or remove) anything unknown.
If the change works during your session, but at the next startup is back to the unwanted page: you might have a user.js file in your personal Firefox settings folder (your Firefox profile folder). This article describes how to track down and remove the file: How to fix preferences that won't save.
Any luck?
Sir:
Thank you so very much, that did the trick. Now that the problem is solved, it is time to figure out how it happened. If I may pick your brain some, how in the name of Hades did this happen? I have not installed ANY Yahoo items on my laptop. It is new (one month old), could this have been something that was piggybacked on some other software? I only have a handful of extensions, Ghostery, Better Privacy, Zen Mate, AdBlock Plus and MacAfee. I have a new Dell XPS 13, could this have been some bloatware already placed? I am just trying to make sure this does not happen again. Thank you again for your quick reply and simplicity of instructions. Mike