Why does Bing search act as home page when I open a NewTab?

Google is my normal home page. It opens when Firefox initializes.
But...when I open a new tab, Bing page opens, not Google. I went to Manage Search Engines and deleted Bing, but this has not helped.

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode

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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
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DON;T WANT TO GO TO HOME PAGE WHEN I OPEN NEW TAB

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Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

Why does the update change my home page and make Google so prevelant?

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Normally, an update does not change your home page...
What did you home page change to? That might help identify the source of the problem.
I assume you have tried changing your home page back to your preferred site, either in the Options dialog or using one of the other methods:
* [[Startup, home page and download settings]]
* [[How to set the home page]]
Did that work at all? By "at all" I mean:
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* Does the setting revert later in your session (you see in Options it has changed)?
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Started my computer. Clicked on the Firefox icon to start Firefox. My preferences include loading my home page (an html file on my computer) when Firefox starts. I have also set browser.newtab.url to the same thing.
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My home page should have loaded.
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All you have to do is open both pages in different tabs and then choose ''Use Current Pages'' while you are setting your home page. It's actually really easy. Just take a look at the Knowledge base article [[How to set the home page]].
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MDaniel wrote:
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deniz aya wrote:
Hello,
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Although I have Igoogle as my home page when I open Firefox it comes up as somoto. How can I get rid of this.

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