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When I click on a new tab it is labeled untitled. How do I get my home page automatically come up when I open a new tab. In the option field under tools, I have the setting set to open my home page when I open firefox, but i doesn't work when opening tabs. When I open a new tab I then I have to click on my homepage Icon to get home page to do a new ssearch.

When I click on a new tab it is labeled untitled. How do I get my home page automatically come up when I open a new tab. In the option field under tools, I have the setting set to open my home page when I open firefox, but i doesn't work when opening tabs. When I open a new tab I then I have to click on my homepage Icon to get home page to do a new ssearch.

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How do I get my home page automatically come up when I open a new tab. :

You can modify Firefox with and extension, I personally would not want that at all, before dismissing a tab I make sure there is nothing in the tab in a backward direction, and would consider looking a anything but a blank page for a new tab as a distracting encumbrance but you can do what you ask for. See the following:


Please mark "Solved" one answer that will best help others with a similar problem -- hope this was it.


I have three pages of my own on tabs


The built-in Firefox search bar works just as a well as the search in the default home page.