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I used new tab last night, and now when I got online today, a new window won't load, just blank new tab.

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This happened once before and I had to do a complete restore of firefox, which was a pain. What's going on? I'm running FF 19.0 and Windows 7.

This happened once before and I had to do a complete restore of firefox, which was a pain. What's going on? I'm running FF 19.0 and Windows 7.

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Hello billiejane, see if the value changed in about:config, in about:config find browser.newtab.url right-click on it choose reset (if the value it is not the about:newtab), if the value is correct (about:newtab) then see : Corrupt or damaged prefs.js file

see for more info : New Tab Page – show, hide and customize top sites


thank you

Modified by ideato

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This has to be a simple fix..since it only happened when I used new tab last night, as before. I can't even type about.config in the address line, it says problem loading page.

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Thank you for your help...I just downloaded Firefox again, it solved the problem. No more tabs for me.

Again, thanks!

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It should be about:config with a colon (:) and not a dot.