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How do I change my new tabs location from opening to bing?

My home page is set to Google and want this to be the same for opening a new tab in a window. Right now when I open a new tab it is sent to bing and I do not find this search engine to be as useful. I I have a mac, I am not sure if that makes a difference.

My home page is set to Google and want this to be the same for opening a new tab in a window. Right now when I open a new tab it is sent to bing and I do not find this search engine to be as useful. I I have a mac, I am not sure if that makes a difference.

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There's a hidden setting for new tabs; as you've noticed, they don't automatically follow your home page setting.

(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 Command+t to open a new tab and verify that it worked. Fixed?

Two gotchas:

  • 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:

    Tools menu > Add-ons > in the left column click Extensions
  • If the change works but at the next startup is back to Bing, 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?