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How do I change what website opens up when I click on a new tab?

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I unintentionally downloaded a Yahoo toolbar which was installed into my Firefox browser. I uninstalled the toolbar however when I click on a new tab, it opens up to the Yahoo search engine. I want to have it open up to a different page. When I click on new window it opens up to the correct site, but not new tab. How do I change this?

I unintentionally downloaded a Yahoo toolbar which was installed into my Firefox browser. I uninstalled the toolbar however when I click on a new tab, it opens up to the Yahoo search engine. I want to have it open up to a different page. When I click on new window it opens up to the correct site, but not new tab. How do I change this?

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Install this extension and set it up for the desired URL for the new Tab.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newtaburl/

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Unfortunately this extension did not fix my problem. Is there perhaps another solution? Do I need to go back to an earlier version of Firefox?