Default Homepage Issues
Wineblue2 Tue, 02/21/2012 - 14:14
I have tried to use every instruction available in setting up Fast Dial on my system yet no matter what settings I use Yahoo Search always appears on new tabs opened. I just want the fast dial page to load on new tab or window instances but even setting it to use about:blank and setting the homepage to blank has no effect. Please advise!
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Re: Default Homepage Issues
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 19:00I have not tried this, but the procedure seems self explanatory
http://medicine-opera.com/2010/03/how-to-disable-yahoos-theft-of-firefox...
Please also see this and other comments regarding one extension
"I found by process of elimination in my add ons, that the problem on mine was the Freeze.com NetAssistant Copyright (c) 2010 W#i Holdings, LLC,. All rights reserved. That is what was causing the issue on mine, though I found that I could disable it, but can not uninstall it."
You will also see references to possibly modifying about:config settings related to this extension
Once you have sorted this, fast dial should re-appear as normal.
Please let us know how you get on.
Re: Default Homepage Issues
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:31Mmmmm....
I seem to have run into a similar problem with the Reverso translation toolbar.
http://www.reverso.net/download-toolbar-translation.html
The toolbar itself is useful if you are translating stuff, but yes it seems to take posession of the new tab, so fast dial disappears, although the settings in Firefox remain unaltered.
Of course one can access Fast Dial through the Ikon but that is not enough.
Ok.
This can be resolved by going to the extension in addons and in
preferences/toolbar options/additional settings and deselecting
Show a search box on new Browser tabs
Easy as that
This is good news, because the options in this translation toolbar, especially define, are extremely useful if troubleshooting translation problems