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Set default new tab page in Firefox
Name: tonysathre Date: November 4, 2007 at 20:14:52 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: P4 2.60 Ghz\ 768 MB Product: Dell Dimension 4550
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Does anyone know how to set the default new tab page in Firefox? I did a lot of Googling and found nothing. Basically I just want CTRL-T to open Google in a new tab.
Name: Ryan (by evil_lbt) Date: November 4, 2007 at 20:35:19 Pacific
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Go to tools > Options > On the main, change the startup page to google.com, then you are set?
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Response Number 2
Name: Richard59 Date: November 5, 2007 at 02:48:35 Pacific
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Sorry Ryan, What you suggest does not work for other than the first opened page. Subsequently opened tabs default to blank unless you select a page from bookmarks and right-click "Open in new tab"
The other way to get there is to use CTRL T to open the new tab and then click the Home icon to open your home page ( Presuming you have google set as your default start page like I do) It is annoying having to make that extra click when opening a new tab.
Might be something to suggest to Mozilla so they can incorporate it in a future update
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Response Number 3
Name: tonysathre Date: November 5, 2007 at 05:00:39 Pacific
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Richard, that is what I do now. But, like you said, it is annoying to have to click the home page icon. Maybe I will make that suggestion to Mozilla for their next release.
Thanks,
Tony
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Response Number 4
Name: Richard59 Date: November 5, 2007 at 05:33:14 Pacific
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I already did after reading your post here. If enough people make the suggestion then the developers might take it up.
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Response Number 5
Name: justcuz (by whitevalley) Date: November 5, 2007 at 09:30:57 Pacific
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Personally, I hope that suggestion is ignored, or only implemented as an option, not the default.
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Response Number 6
Name: xuiparishi Date: November 5, 2007 at 14:24:39 Pacific
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I find this very annoying too. But then they probably won't give us that option because as I see it you would only want it if your homepage is a search engine which makes an embedded search obsolete (even though it doesn't give you all the options you have on hand on the webpage.
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Response Number 7
Name: Sci-Guy Date: November 5, 2007 at 16:41:23 Pacific
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I found an acceptable workaround was to install the "Go To Google" extension. It can be found at Go To Google.
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Response Number 8
Name: tonysathre Date: November 5, 2007 at 17:10:33 Pacific
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Nice, thats what I'm looking for. It still would be a nice option for Mozilla to add to there next build. Too bad the extension doesn't support shortcut keys.
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