1202139 - search engine option

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Sneha]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150826023504

Steps to reproduce:

opened new tab. did not want the outlines of bookmarks. so opened blank page. should provide an option to see search engine.


Actual results:

got a blank page


Expected results:

want search engine on new tab as an option instead of the blank page.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Define your default search engine in the options, then set about:config > browser.newtab.url = about:home.
You're done.

Comment 2

[Sneha]

(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> Define your default search engine in the options, then set about:config >
> browser.newtab.url = about:home.
> You're done.

Okay.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Sneha, is the problem solved?  Should this bug be closed?

Comment 4

[Sneha]

(In reply to Sneha from comment #2)
> (In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> > Define your default search engine in the options, then set about:config >
> > browser.newtab.url = about:home.
> > You're done.
> 
> Okay.

Thanks. The problem has been solved.

Comment 5

[Sneha]

(In reply to [:Aleksej] from comment #3)
> Sneha, is the problem solved?  Should this bug be closed?

Yes, the problem has been solved successfully. I have changed the status of the bug to "RESOLVED WORKSFORME".

Comment 6

[[:Aleksej]]

OK, thanks.

Comment 7

[Loic]

(In reply to Sneha from comment #2)
> (In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> > Define your default search engine in the options, then set about:config >
> > browser.newtab.url = about:home.
> > You're done.
> 
> Okay.

Another comment: browser.newtab.url will be removed after Firefox 41 (bug 1118285) to lower malware hijacking so you will have to install an add-on to bring back this pref (like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/).