How can I show more top sites when I open a new tab? Currently it only shows four.

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• How can I change the display/site when I opened a new tab

  When I open a new tab I have AVG Search. I want to go to google when I open a tab, but I can't figure out how to do this. Your help section doesn't make it easy to find this info.

  "When I opened a new tab I download AVG Search."

  The default action in Firefox is to open a blank tab something installed as an add-on for Firefox changed this action, and until understand you what changed this action and turn off, install another additional probably won't change this new tab of the AVG search page.

  http://support.Mozilla.com/en-us/KB/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

• How can I get rid of Yahoo when I open a new tab?

  My homepage is set to Firefox, but when I open a new tab, the tab is not Firefox with all of my most visited sites! It's Yahoo.

  You can check the suspicious extensions or recently installed unknowns.

  Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/tools > Modules > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is the cause of the problem.

  • Put yourself in the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/tools > Modules > appearance
  • Do NOT click on the reset button on the startup window Mode safe
  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/safe+mode
  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

• How can I do to change the site when I open a new tab.

  Dear friends...
  I can't find information, how to change the site when I opened a second tab. Example: when I open Firefox my google home page and it's perfect, but when I opened a second tab, appears why yahoo as homepage? I want to change it and I can not find how do. Thank you

  The normal behavior is to open a blank tab, an add-on will be originally to show Yahoo. An add-on which has net gel assistant, if you have one you can uninstall it and it should go back to the opening of a blank tab.

  There are modules that allow you to specify what should open in a new tab, such as:

  • NewTabURL - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/newtaburl
  • New tab Homepage - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-homepage

  Another way to open the home page in a new tab is in the Middle, click the home button in the navigation toolbar.

• How can I return search box in a new tab? When I open a new tab, it is only to show the address bar.

  When I click on + to open a new tab, this tab shows only the address bar, no search box! This problem is created suddenly. Previously, this problem, when I opened a new tab it shows google search box and the address bar. Now, the address bar of the new tab worked for both page looking box and address bar.

  I followed: config process and it's worked. But, when I start my computer after a few more hours I see this problem! What can I do? Please tell me.

  I have attached a picture of your understanding.

  I wouldn't try a reinstall immediately. An ordinary reinstall often not made the changes that it would bring.

  user.js file will be a small file in your profile and contained text. If copy you and rename user . txt or user.js.txt it will be readable by any word processor, even if Notepad can open it is.

  • Background info see http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

  Paste the content in your next reply. He can give us some clues as to what is happening.

  In fact the user.js file will change behavior of Firefox and you want to simply rename temporarily; instead of renaming a copy; in order to disable and see what happens.

  Just another thought the usual options used for newtabs

  • Subject: white - it's a plain blankpage, no bar to search it.
  • Subject: newtab - currently by default has a search bar and the tiles
  • topic: home - a search bar and some settings icons etc

  You can try one of these out by typing in the address bar Subject: House or whatever, (or try on: subject).

  It is has two troubleshooting steps simple which will help, but you don't seem to have tried yet.

  First, try fashion without failure of Firefox.
  For example, in now the SHIFT key when you click the icon to start Firefox

  • The problems of Firefox in Mode safe

  The second interesting to try procedure is to create a new additional profile for test purposes. Which erases most of the settings and not be affected by file user.js or interfere with your existing settup. You get the choice what profile to use when you start Firefox.

  • Use the Profile Manager to create and delete profiles Firefox

• Stop the display of sites when I open a new tab

  When I open a new tab, Firefox displays, in the new version, links to a bunch of my sites visited previously. Please tell me how to make this stop. I moved to Firefox, precisely because Chrome has done this and I hated it. This is a behavior that could have been imported from Google. I hate it. Please tell me how to make it stop. Please tell me how to make it stop. Please tell me how to make it stop.

  You can change your new tab screen empty or no matter what URL of your choice.

  (1) in a new tab, type or paste Subject: config in the address bar and press ENTER. Click on the button promising to be careful.

  (2) in the search above the list box, type or paste newtab and make a pause so that the list is filtered

  (3) double-click the preference browser.newtab.url and enter your favorite page:

  • (Default) page thumbnails = > subject: newtab
  • Blank tab = > subject: empty
  • Built-in Firefox homepage = > topic: welcome
  • Any other page = > full URL of the page

  Press Ctrl + t to open a new tab and check that it worked. Fixed?

• Change the site when you open a new tab, without confg.about?

  Hello! My problem is that when I open a new Bing Search tab opens and I would like to reset the tabs to the tab-site of origin, already tried to solve the problem through the subject: site config, but it won't work. When I press the reset on browser.newtab.url resets to the Bing search engine. Help, please!

  / Frida

  Try to reset your Firefox browser. Click on help > > troubleshooting information > > reset Firefox.

  If this doesn't resolve the problem, run the AdwCleaner utility. Download it here http://download.cnet.com/AdwCleaner/3000-7786_4-75851221.html when the program starts, click Scan and it will try to remove unwanted modules, toolbars and more.

  You can also delete the shortcut of Firefox you use all the time as it may be infected. Open Firefox in the start menu or type firefox in the run window.

• How can I use - openURL remote without having to open a new tab?

  I have a kiosk based on the web that I built very long time (before tabbed browsing) that uses periodic calls to:

  Firefox-remote "openURL (http://start.csail.mit.edu/mit-museum)'

  to reset the kiosk to the homepage (the function depends on the web free-form only Browsing not a single sharp application that can recharge only periodically)

  Modern Firefoxes (now works with 12) this call always opens a new tab. I want to do is close all existing tabs but one and return this one to the home page.

  Is there a way to do it with one '-remote ' call or do I need to kill and restart the browser?

  in all: \windows\system32\conifg\system try to set "browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external" to 1

  Edit: Sorry, didn't read your question carefully, the above will only open an external url in the current tab but does not reset the session

• When I opened a new tab I don't want I want google yahoo search

  How can I make my search engine when you open a new tab Yahoo pop up and about as bad as google ASK

  Try the reset of the research

  • https://addons.Mozilla.org/en-us/Firefox/addon/SearchReset/

  Type of topic: config and filter >
  Browser.newtab.URL and change the value as "Google.com".

• How to make the top sites page appears when I open a new tab? Why have I not of "buttons" to pin a top site of the page tab?

  When I open a new tab, NO best sites don't show up... shows just a search engine box. I have Firefox 33.0. Why is there no 'pin' button when I opened a new page? How to make the top sites page appears when I open a new tab?

  Here is some additional information on the configuration of the new tab page:

  (1) in a new tab, type or paste Subject: config in the address bar and press ENTER. Click on the button promising to be careful.

  (2) in the search above the list box, type or paste newtab and make a pause so that the list is filtered

  (3) double-click the preference browser.newtab.url and enter your favorite page:

  • (Default) page thumbnails = > subject: newtab
  • Blank tab = > subject: empty
  • Built-in Firefox homepage = > topic: welcome
  • Any other page = > full URL of the page

  Press Ctrl + t to open a new tab and check that it worked. Fixed?

  Some traps:

  If Firefox will not let you change this setting: you can have what is called SearchProtect on your system.

  Firefox if allows you to save your changes, but he doesn't know: one of your extensions may be the substitution of her. You can consult, disable and/or remove extensions on the addons page:

  "3-bar" menu button (or tools) > Add-ons > in the left column click on Extensions

  If the modification works during your session, but during the next startup is leads to: you could have a user.js file in your personal settings Firefox (your Firefox profile folder). This article describes how to track down and delete the file: How to fix preferences that will not save.

  A little luck?

• How can I disable the 'top sites' history of cleaning does not remove this and confusing and a risk to privacy

  How can I disable the 'top sites' history of cleaning does not remove this and confusing and a risk to privacy.
  It also serves as the sites I want to keep are my favorites
  Is there an alternatively an add-on for this

  Hi Wayne_a,

  If you are concerened about your privacy you can turn off this feature:

  Disable the new tab Page

• When you open a new tab, how can I specify a site or empty? My open tabs to a site I want to see.

  When you open a new tab, how can I specify a site, the home page or empty? My new tabs open to a site that I don't want to see.

  This can be done easily.
  Just install the addon FEATURE My Homepage

  You can get it here:

  https://addons.Mozilla.org/en-us/Firefox/addon/my-homepage

  I hope this helps.
  Thank you!

• How can I make Firefox automatically show my homepage when you open a new tab (instead of a blank page now)?

  How can I make Firefox automatically show my homepage when you open a new tab (instead of a blank page now)?
  (version 3.6.6 on Windows7 64-bit platform)

  New tab homepage extension:
  https://addons.Mozilla.org/en-us/Firefox/addon/777

• When I open a new tab by pressing on the + sign, I am taken to another other than Goodle search engine. How can I avoid this so that I go on google?

  When I open a new tab, I get redirected to a page that is not google. I want to start with google and go from there.

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

  • the new default tab with the tiles page is on: newtab
  • the default homepage is Subject: Home
  • to a blank page, you can use Subject: vacuum

  The pref browser.newtabpage.enabled must be set to true to use the page defined through browser.newtab.url like the new tab page.

  See this article on the page tab (topic: newtab):

  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/new-tab-page-show-hide-and-customize-top-sites

  Your list of details of the system shows that you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize prefs each time you start Firefox.
  The user.js file is present than if you or another software has created this file and normally it wouldn't be here.

  You can check its contents with a text editor (right click: 'Open with'; do not double-click).
  The user.js file is read whenever Firefox is started and initializes the preferences to the specified value in this file, so the preferences set via user.js can be changed temporarily for the current session.

  You can remove the user.js file if you do not create this file yourself.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

  You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder currently in use:

  • Help > troubleshooting information > profile directory: see file (Linux: open the directory;) Mac: View in the Finder)
  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

• How can I reset the page that appears when I open a new tab "white"?

  MySearchDial reset my settings in several browsers. I deleted the program, I set my home page and removed the site from the list of engines of research possible, but when I opened a new tab "in white", it always opens with MySearchDial features. I tried the SearchReset extension, it did not work. I tried the subject: config newtab url, that does not work either.

  How to reset it?

  Could you take a second look at everything: config?

  (1) in a new tab, type or paste Subject: config in the address bar and press ENTER. Click on the button promising to be careful.

  (2) in the search above the list box, type or paste newtab and make a pause so that the list is filtered

  (3) If you check the browser.newtab.url preference, what is he on? These are the typical things:

  • (Default) page thumbnails = > subject: newtab
  • Blank tab = > subject: empty
  • Built-in Firefox homepage = > topic: welcome
  • Any other page = > full URL of the page

  If it is already set correctly, but still, you get a white page MySearchDial, one of your other extensions may be the problem.

  You can consult, disable and/or remove extensions on page modules. Either:

  • CTRL + SHIFT + a
  • "3-bar" menu button (or tools) > Add-ons

  In the left column, click Extensions. Then, when in doubt, turn off...

  If it indicates that it is locked or refuses to save the changes, Check Control Panel, uninstall a program for a program called research protect and remove that. Locked preference may also indicate the presence of a mozilla.cfg file. If you think that, please post back for more information, by simply removing this file can cause problems.