How do I change what a new tab opens up to?

When I open a new tab it opens to AVG search. I would like to change that. How do I do that?

"AVG Safe Search" often makes the "Enter" key not work, it may be opening their search in a new tab since they are the ones with the search by that name. Make sure that you do not have that extension see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
Actually there is more than just the one extension that AVG might install, reinstall AVG Free without the Link Scanner component as mentioned in the above link and always refuse additional baggage offered during an install -- AVG Free does not ask in the free version it just includes it and there are no options once installed in the Free version for components..
Also make sure you don't have the "Ask Toolbar" or other toolbars you did not ask for. see the same link above for Toolbar problems.
It is definitely an extension that causing the behavior you see.

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How do i change what a new tab opens to?

when i open a new tab it goes to BING search.
i want it to go to the location bar.
how can i do this?

Did you try Save mode?
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
You can open the about:config page via the location bar and do a search for bing via the Filter at the top of the about:config page. 
You can reset all bing related prefs that appear bold (user set) via the right-click context menu to their default values.
See also:
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Removing+the+Search+Helper+Extension+and+Bing+Bar

How do I change where a new tab opens?

When I used to open a new tab, it would be a blank page. Now, a new tab opens to the AVG Secure Search page. How can I change it back or change it to, say, the Google search page? Thx.

To change the option in AVG, see second section, "AVG search on newly opened Firefox tabs", of the following page:
*http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=184012#post_184012
I am not an AVG user, therefore I do not know what options are offered in the above. '''''After setting the above''''' to "None" or similar option, if offered, you can install the following and set the options to load whatever page you want to open in a new tab (''Add-ons > Extensions > New TabURL > Options):
*'''''New TabURL''''' --> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newtaburl/
*New TabURL home page --> http://www.sogame.cat/newtaburl/
'''If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when signed-in to the forum.'''

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Hi,
For an unknown reason my new tab changed from google to a weird yahoo one today. I cannot find how to revert it back even after i made google my home page and default search engine. I checked online and saw that perhaps I could fix things with the auto:config but I cannot even get it to open. When I try a search engine opens up. Any help would be appreciated.

The correct name of that page is about:config and not 'auto:config'.
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar.
You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
You can check the value of the browser.newtab.url pref.
See also this article about the New Tab page (about:newtab):
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-tab-page-show-hide-and-customize-top-sites

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I usually use Ubuntu, and am not aware of HTML5 being the default for Flash videos on Windows.
Is it more likely you have chosen an option on the YouTube website to use HTML5. I think this page offers support and includes an option to toggle HTML5 or FlashPlayer.
* https://www.youtube.com/html5

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Whenever I open a new tab, it shows a blank page (toolbars are shown at the top, but nothing shows in the body of the screen). I then have to click the 'home' button, to bring up my homepage. Is it possible to change the settings so that when I open a new tab, my homepage appears?
I am using version 4.0.1, on Windows 7 Pro
Thanks.

New Tab Homepage extension: 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777
or
NewTabURL extension: 
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2221/

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Note, I have navigated available Mozilla Support, and using about:config have reset browser.newtab.url so that the new tab appears blank (discontinuing tracking of recent history for this purpose).
Note, more importantly, I have found this Support Forum article, which, though challengingly written, has given me a temporary solution:
* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/891635
(The temporary solution for the Mac OS is to Command-click on the "Reload current page" icon in the url/Address box in the browser toolbar, which opens a new tab in the same window.)
However, I would still like to set this as a permanent Preference, and would ask someone communicate a solution to me. Cheers, LeProf

''LeProf_7272 wrote:''
if I can possibly just create a new config line
You can't, which is why I suggested the above add-ons. There is no option in the UI or hidden preference in Firefox that can duplicate a tab whenever you open a new tab. ''browser.newtab.url'' can only be set to a fixed address, not whatever address happens to be open in the current tab.
The are only two built-in methods for duplicating a tab:
# Hold down the '''Option''' key and drag the tab to a new position on the tab bar.
# Hold down the '''Command''' key and click the Reload button in the address bar.
* [[Use mouse shortcuts to perform common tasks in Firefox]]
You can make feature requests by filing enhancement bug reports, or by opening the Help menu and clicking Submit Feedback.
* https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines
* https://input.mozilla.org

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You can with an add-on!
Check this one to open your homepage in the new tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/new-tab-homepage/
And that one to choose the URL to open in a new tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/custom-new-tab

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*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
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"AVG Safe Search" often makes the "Enter" key not work, it may be opening their search in a new tab since they are the ones with the search by that name. Make sure that you do not have that extension see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
Actually there is more than just the one extension that AVG might install, reinstall AVG Free without the Link Scanner component as mentioned in the above link and always refuse additional baggage offered during an install -- AVG Free does not ask in the free version it just includes it and there are no options once installed in the Free version for components..
Also make sure you don't have the "Ask Toolbar" or other toolbars you did not ask for. see the same link above for Toolbar problems.
It is definitely an extension that causing the behavior you see.

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Note tha the his code should be in userContent.css and not in userChrome.css
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}</nowiki></pre>
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