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I would like "new tab" to open my homepage. How do I do this?

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roberto063
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Currently my only options for a new tab are "Firefox Home" or "Blank Page", however "Firefox Home" is not my homepage. I'd like new tabs to open up to DuckDuckGo (or another homepage), and am a little surprised that "Firefox Home" currently seems to require that I use Google...

Currently my only options for a new tab are "Firefox Home" or "Blank Page", however "Firefox Home" is not my homepage. I'd like new tabs to open up to DuckDuckGo (or another homepage), and am a little surprised that "Firefox Home" currently seems to require that I use Google...

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roberto063
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(Here you can see the only two options I'm given under "preferences", and also below that, that the option to customize the "Firefox Home" page simply has a tick box for "Web Search", by which I guess it just means "Google", lol...)

cor-el
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You can look at an extension to set the new tab page.