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When I open a new tab, yahoo.com automatically pops up. How do i set the new tab hompage?

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Sachinramani
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my homepage is already set as google.com. but when i open a new tab, the page that pops up is yahoo.com, and i cannot figure out how to change that to google. thanks for your help.

my homepage is already set as google.com. but when i open a new tab, the page that pops up is yahoo.com, and i cannot figure out how to change that to google. thanks for your help.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

  • Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.

See:

Sachinramani
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So in safe mode, the new tab webpage is blank. is there a way to set it to a customized website (i.e. Google.com?)

cor-el
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Firefox opens a new tab by default as a blank tab. If you currently get Yahoo! then you have already an extension that overrides this. You may need to fix this first before trying another extension to set a page for a new tab.

You can look at one of these extensions:

printer6
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Open Firefox in safe mode – Check (disable all add ons) Click on (Make changes and restart) You have an invisible extension being hidden from you. Go to - Tools –Add on – Exstentions - Click - Enable for any add on you want to use.