{"id":39026,"date":"2014-12-13T05:13:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T10:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=39026"},"modified":"2014-12-13T05:13:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T10:13:43","slug":"how-to-make-google-the-default-page-in-a-new-tab-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-to-make-google-the-default-page-in-a-new-tab-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Google the default page in a new tab in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/I-heart-Google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39027\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/I-heart-Google.jpg\" alt=\"I heart Google\" width=\"288\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>A few months ago I checked out DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn&#8217;t track.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t care if my search results are tracked.\u00a0 I figure every keystroke I make is permanently lodged in my computer somewhere for law enforcement or Big Brother to find.\u00a0 I&#8217;m cool wit dat.\u00a0 When DuckDuckGo didn&#8217;t give me better results, I switched back to Google as a search engine.\u00a0 The only problem was suddenly DuckDuckGo was the &#8220;new tab&#8221; default search page and I didn&#8217;t want that.\u00a0 This is how to fix it.\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(1) In a new tab, type or paste <strong>about:config<\/strong> in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.<\/p>\n<p>(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste <strong>newtab<\/strong> and pause while the list is filtered<\/p>\n<p>(3) Double-click the <strong>browser.newtab.url<\/strong> preference and enter your preferred page:<\/p>\n<p>Page thumbnails (default) =&gt; about:newtab<br \/>\nBlank tab =&gt; about:blank<br \/>\nBuilt-in Firefox home page =&gt; about:home<br \/>\nAny other page =&gt; full URL to the page (<strong>I typed in http:\/\/google.com<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Press<strong> Ctrl+t to open a new tab <\/strong>and verify that it worked.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-to-make-google-the-default-page-in-a-new-tab-in-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=How to make Google the default page in a new tab in Firefox&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-to-make-google-the-default-page-in-a-new-tab-in-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-to-make-google-the-default-page-in-a-new-tab-in-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-to-make-google-the-default-page-in-a-new-tab-in-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=How%20to%20make%20Google%20the%20default%20page%20in%20a%20new%20tab%20in%20Firefox&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-to-make-google-the-default-page-in-a-new-tab-in-firefox\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I checked out DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn&#8217;t track.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t care if my search results are tracked.\u00a0 I figure every keystroke I make is permanently lodged in my computer somewhere for law enforcement or Big Brother to find.\u00a0 I&#8217;m cool wit dat.\u00a0 When DuckDuckGo didn&#8217;t give me better results, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39028,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39026\/revisions\/39028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}