How do I make new tabs open up with Google search engine instead of Bing's search.conduit.com
In Firefox under Options I have set the start up tab to be Google but every additional tab I open up opens in Bing with the search.conduit in the address bar. One forum answer said to look in programs for the Conduit program and uninstall it. I did that but new tabs still come up with the Conduit program. I want all the tabs to open up with Google. I feel that Bing via this Conduit program has hijacked my browsing. lWould someone please help me get this resolved.
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Conduit provides the back end for many "community toolbar" extensions and also may pay software distributors to include it in "free" software downloads. You may need to remove an extension, but first, here's the hidden setting for what appears on the new tab page:
(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?
- If Firefox ignores the setting, one of your extensions may be overriding it. You can review, disable, and/or remove extensions on the add-ons page:
Ctrl+Shift+a or
Tools menu > Add-ons
In the left column click Extensions
- If the change works but at the next startup is back to Conduit, 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.
Any luck?
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Chosen Solution
Conduit provides the back end for many "community toolbar" extensions and also may pay software distributors to include it in "free" software downloads. You may need to remove an extension, but first, here's the hidden setting for what appears on the new tab page:
(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?
- If Firefox ignores the setting, one of your extensions may be overriding it. You can review, disable, and/or remove extensions on the add-ons page:
Ctrl+Shift+a or
Tools menu > Add-ons
In the left column click Extensions
- If the change works but at the next startup is back to Conduit, 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.
Any luck?
Thank you SO MUCH! That fixed the problem. I am saving this for future reference. You rock!!!