How do I set the homepage for a new tab in Firefox?

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  1. Click on menu icon.
  2. Click on options.
  3. In left pane, click on Home menu icon.
  4. In this menu, you will find an option New Windows and Tabs.
  5. In this option, you will find a dropdown menu named Homepage and New Windows.
  6. and, choose Firefox Home (Default).

How do I add a website to my Firefox homepage?

How to Use Firefox Top Sites

  1. Hover over the Top Sites section and click the three-dot menu.
  2. Click Add Top Site.
  3. Enter a Title and URL for the site you want to add.
  4. Optionally, click Use a custom image and add the URL for a thumbnail you want to use for the Top Sites page.
  5. Click Add to save the new site.

How do I make Firefox show most visited in new tab?

Hit the Space-key on the keyboard after activating the address bar. You will notice that Firefox changes the list of suggestions from “top sites” to “most visited”. Hit the ^-key instead and you get a similar listing; this one uses a slightly different algorithm to compute the list of sites.

How do I get my homepage?

  1. In the menu bar on the top of your browser, click Tools.
  2. Select Internet Options.
  3. Click the General tab.
  4. Under “Home page,” enter: www.google.com .
  5. Click OK.
  6. Restart your browser.

What is the Firefox homepage URL?

The built-in Firefox home page (screen shot attached) has an address of ”’about:home”’ but since it is part of the Firefox program files it can’t be used in other browsers. Anyway, it uses your default search engine. by default, in North America, that starts out as Yahoo.

How do I add a website to my toolbar in Firefox?

Go to the page you want to add to the Bookmarks toolbar. In the address bar, click and drag the padlock icon onto the Bookmarks toolbar.

How do I show top sites in Firefox?

From the menu:

  1. Tap the menu button (three dots) at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Tap Add top sites.
  3. A top site selection panel will appear with popular websites for you to choose from.
  4. Tap the website you want to add, and you will see the website pop-up on your Firefox Lite’s home screen.

How do I open a new tab in Firefox?

Tabs can be moved in Firefox, so you can also rearrange the pages based on their importance.

  1. Launch Mozilla Firefox and navigate to the Web page that contains the links you want to open in new tabs.
  2. Hold down “Ctrl” and click a link to open it in a new tab.

How do I override a new tab in Firefox?

New Tab Override allows you to set the page that shows whenever you open a new tab. The settings interface can be accessed via Shift + F12. It is also possible to open the settings interface by entering newtab settings in the address bar or from the menu entry in the tools menu.

Is it possible to change new tab page URL in Firefox?

Yes. It’s possible. Not by default but by using an add-on. By default, Mozilla Firefox doesn’t allow changing “ New Tab ” page URL. When you open a new tab, a blank page is opened. “ NewTabURL ” is an add-on for Firefox which allows you to change New Tab page URL.

Does Firefox support loading a local homepage in a new tab?

However, Firefox doesn’t seem to support loading a local homepage in a new tab. I have attempted to resolve this by setting up a server and using the My Homepage addon which kind of workds, but it’s extremely slow and cumbersome. Would be very grateful if someone had a better idea.

Where do I put the Firefox config file?

The mozilla.cfg file needs to be in the main Firefox program folder This requires a local-settings.js file in the “defaults/pref” folder where the channel-prefs.js file is located that specifies to use mozilla.cfg. The mozilla.cfg and local-settings.js files need to start with a comment line (//).

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