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I want the google search engine when a new tab is selected but I'm getting the yahoo search engine instead

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Shaizh
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I click on the add tab button and the yahoo search engine comes up as the home page. This should be the google search engine, as it is when I first open Firefox.

I click on the add tab button and the yahoo search engine comes up as the home page. This should be the google search engine, as it is when I first open Firefox.

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cor-el
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A new tab opens by default as a blank tab (about:blank).
If that isn't the case then an extension has changed that behavior.

You can look at one of these extensions: