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Strange title, I know. Let's see if I can explain. Years ago, when I first downloaded Firefox onto MS Windows, the man who did it for me set it up to show a large screen with nothing except a Google search bar in the center. I have often wondered why I can get no Firefox home page with news, etc. Today, I discovered that the URL for this page is https://www.google.com/
It is a Google page, not a Firefox page! OK. On the menu bar I opened the Windows menu and found: Minimize, Zoom and Google. The Google name has a check mark beside it.
What would happen if I removed that check mark? Would I then get the Firefox home page. And would there still be a search bar on it?
I no longer use MS Windows. I am using a Mac. But I find no place on my Mac that provides news headlines which is really what I am searching for.
Firefox is a browser and you can set the homepage, the first page that you see when you open it, to whatever webpage you want. Both my Firefox and Internet Explorer open to the Google search page.
I only know how to change it in Windows 7. In that OS one goes to the Control Panel, clicks Internet Options, and under the General Tab is a space to type in a preferred home page URL. Mine has {http://www.google.com]Google} (without the brackets).
Obviously your Mac's Firefox has been set up with the same home page URL. Someone here will be able to tell you how to achieve changing it to whatever you prefer.
Sounds like some of us have Google set as our prefered search engine. In Firefox you would click on the icon with the three horizontal bars in the upper right of the page. Then click on "Options", then "Search" and look at "Default Search Engine." Review the options on that page.
Type 'aboutreferences' (without the ' ') in the address bar. There you can set your home page to whatever you want. You can even start up the browser with multiple tabs open (for example, Google, email, news site, etc.) It's easiest to open whatever page(s) you want and click Use Current Pages.
That should be about(colon)preferences, not smiley face.
Last edited by JonahWicky; 08-25-2016 at 09:44 AM..
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Your installer person did not set FF's Home page to the Google bar, that's is FF's default Home page.
You can change the Startup Home page to any website, bookmark, you want. Even a blank page.
On a Mac, go to Firefox in the top menu bar, select Preferences>General. (or type ⌘, (Command comma) )
There you will see the boxes to change/enter what you want.
Click the the three horizontal bars up in the right and then click options. In the general section which should open by default is the start page. You can set multiple tabs to load by separating them with a |
Click the the three horizontal bars up in the right and then click options. In the general section which should open by default is the start page. You can set multiple tabs to load by separating them with a |
That will open all three sites when you start the browser.
Thanks. Mine doesn't say Options. It says something else that I think is the same. Haven't had time to investigate calmly a I've been out today and am now playing catchup. Later I shall get at it.
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references' (without the ' ') in the address bar. There you can set your home page to whatever you want. You can even start up the browser with multiple tabs open (for example, Google, email, news site, etc.) It's easiest to open whatever page(s) you want and click Use Current Pages.
