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I click new tab and google homepage opens, so far so good, but address bar is active, I wish for google search to be.

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Rewlz
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When I click a new tab, I've chosen via about:config that I want to load google's homepage, but the address bar is marked so that I can type in an internet address. Instead I wish for the google search engine to be active when I open a new tab, how can I change this?

Usually everytime I open a new tab it's for googling, not typing addresses.

I even installed NewTabURL 2.2.3 to test it out, but it didn't work. I even unchecked "Select location bar after loading the new tab" but nothing happened.

Thanks in advance.

When I click a new tab, I've chosen via about:config that I want to load google's homepage, but the address bar is marked so that I can type in an internet address. Instead I wish for the google search engine to be active when I open a new tab, how can I change this? Usually everytime I open a new tab it's for googling, not typing addresses. I even installed NewTabURL 2.2.3 to test it out, but it didn't work. I even unchecked "Select location bar after loading the new tab" but nothing happened. Thanks in advance.

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guigs
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What is interesting is that currently this happens by default. There may be an addon or a modified preference that may have changed.

Try a new profile, this will tell you if its something that was changed in your current profile: Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles

cor-el
cor-el
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You can look at this extension: