How do i stop Bing from coming up in a new tab on Firefox?

So, I installed some software that made Bing default on all my browsers which i went back and manually removed, but the one thing i couldn't get rid of was Bing's website coming up on any New Tab I opened.
I looked all over this support forum, but finally found the answer I needed elsewhere. Any potential answers on here missed the point or were way overly complicated and closed from future answers. So I'm attempting to make a new thread, since the answer is simple and I nearly punched my monitor and how aggravated I had become. :P
Here's the easy solution:
- Open Firefox
- type "about:config" in the URL bar - obviously, you will be careful ;-)
- type "browser.newtab.url" in the search bar
- (you'll see under "value" that nasty bing.com address it keeps sending you too)
- right-click on the selection and 'reset' the entry
Result: you will get Firefox' standard tile configuration with most used URL's
Yay! Now go be free people!

Hi.
Thank you very much for that information, glad to see that your problem has been fixed.
What we may do is capture this in a Knowledge Base article to help other people that may have the same issue in future.
Freedom is good, freedom is very good.
Thanks again.

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