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Opening Firefox opens two tabs, one is Yahoo while the other is my set home page, how do I stop this?

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When I open a fresh instance of Firefox I get a Yahoo tab ( https://search.yahoo.com/?type=779227&fr=spigot-yhp-ff ), and my home page ( https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl ). I've checked for the yahoo redirect thing and it seems to not be on my system at all. So why does this happen and how can I stop it. This just started today and it is kinda grating.

When I open a fresh instance of Firefox I get a Yahoo tab ( https://search.yahoo.com/?type=779227&fr=spigot-yhp-ff ), and my home page ( https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl ). I've checked for the yahoo redirect thing and it seems to not be on my system at all. So why does this happen and how can I stop it. This just started today and it is kinda grating.

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Hi, Firefox is able to open multiple home pages with the URLs separated by a 'pipe' (|), so please see - How to set the home page, and in 'Home Page,' make sure that in addition to your home page URL (the Firefox start page is about:home but you may have set a different one, or the New Tab page, which is about:newtab) there isn't anything else - if there is, just delete it.

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You can check the target line in the Firefox desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties) to make sure that nothing is appended after the path to the Firefox program.


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