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Firefox is my Start Page, but when I open a new tab, that one is Bing: How do I make the tabs Firefox aswell?

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Ice_Wolf
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So Firefox is my start page, that's OK. But if I open a new tab Bing comes up when I want Firefox (Cuase it swag 'n' stuff) How do I fix it?

So Firefox is my start page, that's OK. But if I open a new tab Bing comes up when I want Firefox (Cuase it swag 'n' stuff) How do I fix it?

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You can check the browser.newtab.url pref on the about:config page and set that pref to your preferred new tab page.

  • the default new tab page with the tiles is about:newtab
  • the default home page is about:home
  • for a blank page you can use about:blank

The browser.newtabpage.enabled pref should be set to true to use the page set via browser.newtab.url as the new tab page.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
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cor-el
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Chosen Solution

You can check the browser.newtab.url pref on the about:config page and set that pref to your preferred new tab page.

  • the default new tab page with the tiles is about:newtab
  • the default home page is about:home
  • for a blank page you can use about:blank

The browser.newtabpage.enabled pref should be set to true to use the page set via browser.newtab.url as the new tab page.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
Ice_Wolf
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Ice_Wolf said

So Firefox is my start page, that's OK. But if I open a new tab Bing comes up when I want Firefox (Cuase it swag 'n' stuff) How do I fix it?

cor-el said

You can check the browser.newtab.url pref on the about:config page and set that pref to your preferred new tab page.
  • the default new tab page with the tiles is about:newtab
  • the default home page is about:home
  • for a blank page you can use about:blank
The browser.newtabpage.enabled pref should be set to true to use the page set via browser.newtab.url as the new tab page.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window

You beat yourself to it on this page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1019383 Sorry If i Wasted you time :/