How to set Blank both Start Page and New Tab in Firefox

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Web browsers have become the essential tool when it comes to the Internet. We use them for work, checking e-mail, communications and many other things. It is therefore important that we want them to start up as quickly as possible and not distract us with unnecessary things.
Browser vendors go the other way - they add different, less useful information as soon as we open a new browser window or a new tab.

Following the steps below you will be able to configure the Mozilla Firefox so that when you open it or open a new tab, you will see a blank page.

As a result, the window will open much faster and you will not be distracted with unnecessary information.

  1. Click three dots button in top-right corner

    set-blank-page-new-tab-firefox-new-tab

  2. Click Options

    set-blank-page-new-tab-firefox-menu

  3. On left click Home

    firefox-about-preferences-general

  4. We are interested in New Windows and Tabs section

    firefox-about-preferences-home

    Homepage and New Window

    In Homepage and new windows choose Blank Page

    firefox-about-preferences-home-homepage-new-windows

    New Tab

    In New tabs select Blank Page

    firefox-about-preferences-home-new-tabs

4 thoughts on “How to set Blank both Start Page and New Tab in Firefox”

  1. I’m having a problem related to this, in a way.

    I have FF set to Startup > Restore Previous Session. (That’s what it says now, BTW; you need to update your screenshot.) But there are times when I’ve finished viewing webpages, and want to start FF next time with a blank page.

    I’ve set my Home button to “about:blank”—and when I click it, I do indeed get a blank page. But when I exit FF with just that blank page, and Startup set to “Restore Previous Session”, it doesn’t run again with a blank page (my “previous session”, right?). Instead, it opens the last non-blank page I viewed.

    I think this is an oversight. Where should I point it out? I’ve tried logging in to Mozilla’s support site, but it asks for some strange “security device” now—and even though I’m a tech writer, I can’t make head or tail out of it.

    Thanks!

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