Firefox when open new tab dont go to it how to#

Since you can’t see it when you look at your Firefox add-ons (under tools/add-ons) and plug-ins, you can’t disable it. What Yahoo has done is to add an invisible add-on. Ĭlick the Disable all add-ons as is shown above.

Do not confuse Firefox Safe Mode with Windows Safe Mode they are two different things. Make sure that Firefox is closed before going any further. Click on it and you will see both versions of Firefox. You can find both versions by clicking the Start button, then click All Programs. Mozilla installs two versions of Firefox. First you can avoid it altogether by not installing Yahoo’s toolbar, but it often sneaks onto your browser as part of another installation.

Firefox when open new tab dont go to it how to#

So if you’ve got this problem and are troubled by it, here’s how to get rid of it. I understand that this is not the Spanish Inquisition, nor all out thermonuclear war, nor bubonic plague, nor genital herpes – but it is a pain and a challenge. Both searches will reveal that other people are having this problem and that they don’t seem to be able to solve it. You can search Yahoo and you still won’t get an answer. You can search Google about this problem and you’re likely not to find how to rid Firefox of this annoying tic. You can uninstall anything on your computer that says “Yahoo” and the new tab button still goes to Yahoo search. Nope, you’re still going to Yahoo search. You can disable the Yahoo toolbar – no luck. This appears to be part of Firefox forever, until the end of recorded time, or at least until you figure out how to get rid of it. But once you’ve installed the Yahoo toolbar instead of a blank page you’ll find that a new tab defaults to Yahoo’s search page. If you click the new tab button on Firefox you should get a blank and untitled page.

If you install a Yahoo toolbar into Mozilla’s Firefox you’ll discover that it hijacks Firefox’s new tab page. If you like puzzles you might try to figure this one out.