''How do I get my home page automatically come up when I open a new tab. :'' You can modify Firefox with and extension, I personally would not want that at all, before dismissing a tab I make sure there is nothing in the tab in a backward direction, and would consider looking a anything but a blank page for a new tab as a distracting encumbrance but you can do what you ask for. See the following: *NewTabURL :: Add-ons for Firefox<br>https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/newtaburl/ <br><small>Please mark "Solved" one answer that will best help others with a similar problem -- hope this was it.</small> ---- I have three pages of my own on tabs * Tabbed Browsing in Firefox<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/tabs.htm * Tabs configuration, extracted from About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/tabs_config.htm * 001 Tab Capacity and other Tests<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/tab_capacity/001_with_underscore.htm ---- The built-in Firefox search bar works just as a well as the search in the default home page.