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When I open a new tab, it opens to "www.golsearch.com". Why does this happen and how can I stop it?

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When I click on the "+" icon to open a new tab, the new tab automatically opens to www.golsearch.com. I don't know why this is happening. Please tell me how to get rid of it!

When I click on the "+" icon to open a new tab, the new tab automatically opens to www.golsearch.com. I don't know why this is happening. Please tell me how to get rid of it!

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Try the following:

  1. Go to about:config in Firefox
  2. Locate the browser.newtab.url string
  3. Change to value to the URL of your desired new tab page

Please report back soon.

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Try the following:

  1. Go to about:config in Firefox
  2. Locate the browser.newtab.url string
  3. Change to value to the URL of your desired new tab page

Please report back soon.

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Note that your System Details List shows that you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize some prefs on each start of Firefox.

The user.js file is only present if you or other software has created it, so normally it wouldn't be there. you can check its content with a plain text editor if you didn't create this file yourself.

The user.js file is read each time you start Firefox and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.