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stop flickr images when opening new tab

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oakhill
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Somehow with a new version of Firefox when a new tab is opened a Flickr image appears. I need to stop that image from appearing. It totally destroys my workflow.

Somehow with a new version of Firefox when a new tab is opened a Flickr image appears. I need to stop that image from appearing. It totally destroys my workflow.

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FredMcD
FredMcD
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With Firefox 41 (and higher), it's no longer possible to customize the page shown in a new tab via changing the preference browser.newtab.url in about.config. Because of the fact that hijackers abused the preference in the past, Mozilla decided to remove it (see bug 1118285). Fortunately, by removing it, Mozilla also introduced a new API to bring this functionality back to life as an add-on. This add-on allows the user to choose a certain page in a new tab.

New Tab Override (browser.newtab.url replacement) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/

This is also available using Classic Theme Restorer (Customize Australis) {web link} Restore squared tabs, appmenu, add-ons bar, small button view and more on Australis UI (Windows/MacOSX/Linux + Fx 29+).