Can default New Tab page be changed?

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I recently downloaded the LFG Boom for Firefox and have since noticed that when I open a new tab, instead of the blank page that previously opened, now I'm taken to a Yahoo search page. I was just curious if users could manually change this default new tab page. If so, how?

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Michael Kaply (Official Rep) August 19, 2009 02:14

We have a way to turn this off now.

To disable the tab search, try this:

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Type about:config in your browser's url bar.

Click "I'll be careful, I promise"

Right click and select New->Boolean

For the preference name, type:

extensions.brandthunder.tabSearch

set it to false.

This should disable the tab search.

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Michael Kaply (Official Rep) May 06, 2009 18:43

Not at this time. We'll add a way to turn it off in a future release.

Sorry about that.

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Not at this time. We'll add a way to turn it off in a future release. Sorry about that.

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Russ Vibbard August 18, 2009 13:22

yes

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Michael Kaply (Official Rep) August 19, 2009 02:14

We have a way to turn this off now.

To disable the tab search, try this:

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Type about:config in your browser's url bar.

Click "I'll be careful, I promise"

Right click and select New->Boolean

For the preference name, type:

extensions.brandthunder.tabSearch

set it to false.

This should disable the tab search.

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We have a way to turn this off now. To disable the tab search, try this: Try this: Type about:config in your browser's url bar. Click "I'll be careful, I promise" Right click and select New->Boolean For the preference name, type: extensions.brandthunder.tabSearch set it to false. This should disable the tab search.

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Matt August 21, 2009 06:26

Yes, an easy way to change this would be nice. I love my Canucks tool bar, but opening up yahoo everytime is annoying.

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Yes, an easy way to change this would be nice. I love my Canucks tool bar, but opening up yahoo everytime is annoying.

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Matt August 21, 2009 07:14

Also, when you just type something into the address bar it's also yahoo search.

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Michael Kaply (Official Rep) August 21, 2009 14:03

For the keyword search, follow the same procedure as above, only set extensions.brandthunder.keywordSearch to false

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For the keyword search, follow the same procedure as above, only set extensions.brandthunder.keywordSearch to false

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overlytall October 20, 2009 09:10

You can change the keyword search to google or whatever your preference is...
In About:Config search for the word keyword. You can disable the search by double clicking on 'keyword.enabled' or change the default search to another by changing the 'keyword.URL' to a search engine of your preference.

Google is mine so I use;
http://www.google.com/search?q=

Yahoo is;
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?rd=...

Ask;
http://www.ask.com/web?q=

Amazon;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&tag...

Ebay;
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=

Hope that helps.
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You can change the keyword search to google or whatever your preference is... In About:Config search for the word keyword. You can disable the search by double clicking on 'keyword.enabled' or change the default search to another by changing the 'keyword.URL' to a search engine of your preference. Google is mine so I use; http://www.google.com/search?q= Yahoo is; http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?rd=r1&p= Ask; http://www.ask.com/web?q= Amazon; http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&tag=firefox-uk-21&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords= Ebay; http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw= Hope that helps. regards _ Steve Cook

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