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How to disable new tab opening a link

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When I open a new tab the tab always goes to a site that I don't want. (www.trovi.com/?gd=&ctid=CT3324790&octid=EB_ORIGINAL_CTID&ISID=M838640DB-EC73-4300-8602-7D1EEE4B1369&SearchSource=69&CUI=&SSPV=&Lay=1&UM=5&UP=SP73AABAE0-A6F2-4BD6-9FFA-3CAFCB010342) How do I disable the automatic re-direction when I open a new tab

When I open a new tab the tab always goes to a site that I don't want. (www.trovi.com/?gd=&ctid=CT3324790&octid=EB_ORIGINAL_CTID&ISID=M838640DB-EC73-4300-8602-7D1EEE4B1369&SearchSource=69&CUI=&SSPV=&Lay=1&UM=5&UP=SP73AABAE0-A6F2-4BD6-9FFA-3CAFCB010342) How do I disable the automatic re-direction when I open a new tab

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Reset the browser.newtab.url pref.

  • Go to about:config via your Address Bar
  • Press the button saying you'll be careful
  • Search for browser.newtab.url
  • Right click -> Reset
  • You might also want to check for any prefs Trovi has set. Search for trovi and reset all prefs (Right click -> Reset)
  • You might have to restart Firefox for this to work.
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Reset the browser.newtab.url pref.

  • Go to about:config via your Address Bar
  • Press the button saying you'll be careful
  • Search for browser.newtab.url
  • Right click -> Reset
  • You might also want to check for any prefs Trovi has set. Search for trovi and reset all prefs (Right click -> Reset)
  • You might have to restart Firefox for this to work.

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I tried that. Doing a reset on this entry just puts the same url back in. I tried changing the value to blank but it would not take that either.

What do you mean with prevs> I searched about:confog for trovi but the only entry was browser.newtab.url

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I had top re-start firefox and then the reset worked on newtab.url!

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I have the same problem, which apparently came from downloading another browser to backup Firefox. I am NOT tech savvy. This seems to address my problem, but I don't know what or where the Address Bar is or how to get to about:config. Can you make it easy? (Please oh please!) Steve

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The address bar is where you type in your url (example: www.mozilla.org)

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Thank you. I was able to navigate as per the directions above, but to my aggravation, right clicking and it didn't work even when I re-started Firefox and re-started my computer. Is there something I can type in manually using 'change'?

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Steveweeb,

I'm not sure what's going on. Are you click on the pref (browser.newtab.url) and clicking Reset on the context menu that pops up? See screenshot


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Modified by Moses