Firefox 3: Display Search Results in New Tab
- Open Firefox 3
- In the address bar, type about:config and hit Enter on your keyboard
- Scroll down to browser.search.openintab and double-click it to change the value to True
- Restart Firefox 3.
Note
[] Make a backup of your prefs.js file before you start editing. Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore it by copying it over the corrupt file.
[] Make a backup of your prefs.js file before you start editing. Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore it by copying it over the corrupt file.
[] If you can’t restore via a backup prefs.js file, you can exit Firefox and issue the command firefox -safe-mode to bring up the Firefox Safe Mode screen. Then, just select Reset All User Preferences To Firefox Defaults. This will restore all user preferences to their default values.
very good post very useful thanks prashant!