Solved How do I change blank pages to show the Google page as they used to?

Vic123 · Sep 9, 2012

Hi All,

I am using Firefox as my preferred browser. When I reboot, Google always shows as my default search engine. But... when I click on the + sign or the house (in the top right corner) to open another tab/window, it opens to a blank page when it used to open to a Google page.

Can you help?

Thanks for your assistance,

Vic

bigmck · Sep 9, 2012

Vic123 said:
Hi All,

I am using Firefox as my preferred browser. When I reboot, Google always shows as my default search engine. But... when I click on the + sign or the house (in the top right corner) to open another tab/window, it opens to a blank page when it used to open to a Google page.

Can you help?

Thanks for your assistance,

Vic

Hi -- Not sure if this is what you want, but go to Tools and click on Options. On the window that comes up, click on General and you can put in the home page that you want.

AC · Sep 9, 2012

Go to google.com, and drag the google icon to the little home icon, and see if that works.

Vic123 · Sep 9, 2012

I appreciate both of your suggestions but they were unsuccessful.

bigmck: Although I did what you suggested, it won't stick.

714: When I drag Google from the page up to the house, it just changes into the Google image only... not the entire page.

bigmck · Sep 9, 2012

She's BBBAAACCCKKK

bigmck · Sep 9, 2012

Vic123 said:
I appreciate both of your suggestions but they were unsuccessful.

bigmck: Although I did what you suggested, it won't stick.

That has got to work. Go to the webpage that you want as your home page.
Then go to Tools, Options, General as before. Click the "Use Current Page" and then Click OK at the bottom. It has got to work.

Vic123 · Sep 9, 2012

Okay bigmck... I opened a new window that was free of open tabs since it seemed to be collecting all the open tab addresses in the General > Use Current Pages > Okay.

So Google shows up when the new window opens but when I click the + for another tab, it opens a tab that simply says "New Tab".

But once I click on the home icon on the top right, the "New Tab" page becomes a Google page.

Which is fine and I appreciate your instruction. But can you tell me how to have the + turn into a Google page like it used to?

Thanks again,

Vic

Trevers1987 · Sep 9, 2012

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-homepage/

Use this

bigmck · Sep 9, 2012

Vic123 said:
Okay bigmck... I opened a new window that was free of open tabs since it seemed to be collecting all the open tab addresses in the General > Use Current Pages > Okay.

So Google shows up when the new window opens but when I click the + for another tab, it opens a tab that simply says "New Tab".

But once I click on the home icon on the top right, the "New Tab" page becomes a Google page.

Which is fine and I appreciate your instruction. But can you tell me how to have the + turn into a Google page like it used to?

Thanks again,

Vic

The add-on that Trevers has in the above message will do what you want. Check it out.

Trevers1987 · Sep 9, 2012

The simple solutions are always the best plus i've been using the old girl since she was called Mozilla Suite.

C-11 · Sep 9, 2012

You don't need an Addon to do this.

In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter.

The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.

Type browser.newtab.url in the search box.

Double-click the browser.newtab.url preference and change the url from about:newtab to about:blank. Alternately, you can change it to about:home for the Firefox Google home page, or type in your preferred home page, for example google.com.

Click OK and close the about:config tab.

New Tab Page – show, hide and customize top sites | How to | Firefox Help

Trevers1987 · Sep 9, 2012

Was just giving the simple solution save him poking around in Cfg, hell why he is in there may as well change the Browser.sessionhistory.max total viewers value

just for fun we all love Firefox well i do anyway

Vic123 · Sep 9, 2012

Thanks Travers but I have tried at least 8 times including restarts to no avail. When you mentioned the "New Tab Homepage" link it sounded familiar and I think I've been through this before. Just can't remember how I resolved it.

I will continue trying to solve this tomorrow. In the meantime, thanks everyone for helping.

Vic

Vic123 · Sep 9, 2012

I didn't realize there were 2 pages.

Alabama: I've gone to this point but still no cigar:

I've even set both lines to false.

Trevers1987 · Sep 10, 2012

Try resetting your firefox to it default values and go from there just remember to save all your bookmarks you can do this just by exporting as a html file and save to desktop for later use.
To reset firefox to default simply type (firefox -safe-mode) in Run check all boxes and hit restart, your browser will now be brand new and bug free. Set your home page to what you like and install the addon I pointed you towards now all should be OK.

C-11 · Sep 10, 2012

Vic123 said:
I didn't realize there were 2 pages.

Alabama: I've gone to this point but still no cigar:

I've even set both lines to false.

Type browser.newtab.url in the search box.

In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter.
The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.
Type browser.newtab.url in the search box.
Double-click the browser.newtab.url preference and change the url from about:newtab to google.com.
Click OK and close the about:config tab.

Then Google will open in a new tab.

Vic123 · Sep 11, 2012

You are my HERO Alabama! Sorry it took me so long to come back but it works just like it used to.

Thanks to everyone who helped... I'm very appreciative!

Vic

C-11 · Sep 11, 2012

Glad you got it fixed the way you like it.

Thanks for posting back.

sharon681 · Oct 22, 2012

Easy

I tried for over an hour to get my tab pages back to the way they were. The poster that said Mozilla Add On would fix problem with tab pages coming up empty is absolutely correct. In addition, after you install and restart, you have to do NOTHING else. Thank you very much poster (since I cant see name while replying) I appreciate that not only was your advise actually correct, but it is very simple.

sharon681 · Oct 22, 2012

Trevers1987 said:
Was just giving the simple solution save him poking around in Cfg, hell why he is in there may as well change the Browser.sessionhistory.max total viewers value just for fun we all love Firefox well i do anyway

Had the same issue. Thank You so much Trevors.

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