yahoo taken over my tabs
I have removed cookies for this, uninstalled all related programs and reset my homepage away from yahoo but still everytime I click a new tab the yahoo page re-appears like a plague. Why does firefox allow this?????? And why do I have to go through a regitation process to gain a fix? This is not acceptable, there are alternatives to firefox.
Opaite Mbohovái (2)
Sorry you have to register, but this is a common anti-spam protection for forums.
New tabs do not automatically follow your home page setting, there's actually a separate, hidden setting you can adjust here:
(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
Press Ctrl+t to open a new tab and verify that it worked. Fixed?
Three things to look out for:
- If Firefox will not save any changes to this setting, you may have a program named Search Protect that you need to uninstall through the Windows Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs or Uninstall a Program.
- If Firefox ignores the setting, one of your extensions may be overriding it. Please open the Add-ons page, Extensions section, and cast a critical eye on what's there. As a first approximation, try disabling everything you will not use in the next 24 hours. You can open the page using either of the following, then click "Extensions" in the left column:
- Ctrl+Shift+a
- "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons
- If the change works for the rest of your session but at the next startup is back to blank, 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. Some utility programs like Advanced SystemCare have a feature to revert your settings to an earlier state between sessions ("Surfing Protection"). That's another thing to check for if you keep losing your settings changes.
Any luck?
Moambuepyre jscher2000 - Support Volunteer rupive
I should have mentioned that if you want the factory defaults of: Google search, built-in home page, and standard 9-thumbnail new tab page, you can use this extension to reset them all in one step: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/searchreset/