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When I open a new tab I'd like it to open in my home page (my favourite search engine). Any suggestions how I can set this up, please?

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When I open a new tab I'd like it to open in my home page (my favourite search engine). Any suggestions how I can set this up, please?

When I open a new tab I'd like it to open in my home page (my favourite search engine). Any suggestions how I can set this up, please?

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Sounds like you want the New Tab Homage extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777/

For more info about extensions, see Use extensions to add features to Firefox

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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

Sounds like you want the New Tab Homage extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777/

For more info about extensions, see Use extensions to add features to Firefox

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Just as an aside: this add-on doesn't work for 4.0b4 yet.

In general, I really can't believe that Firefox, now, what, 5 years old, still doesn't have this as a built-in feature. I mean, how hard could it be to put a little checkbox next to ones home page preference to indicate that this should be used also when opening a new tab! This has been requested by users ever since the beginning! It shouldn't have to be an add-on.

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Ah...Excellent....I've been trying to do this for some time and thought it must be something I was doing wrong. After all, I'd set my Homepage; so I just expected any new tab to automatically open at my Homepage! Thanks to the author of the extension. P.

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Found the answer in another thread discussing the same problem. Hit Ctrl and click the Home icon at the same time. Works great!