When I hit + to open a new tab, I always get Yahoo. How can I stop this?

When I click on the plus (+) symbol to open a new tab on the Firefox tab bar I always get the Yahoo home page and cannot get a blank tab. No matter what I do, I always get Yahoo. How do I get Yahoo to go away? Or better yet, how do I kill Yahoo?
Frank Segars

A new tab opens by default as a blank tab (about:blank).
If that isn't the case then an extension has changed that behavior.
See:
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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