Plus sign (new tab) stopped working
Used to have a plus sign adjacent to current window tab. Lately it's gone. When I type about:config and scroll down to the entries for browser.newtab there is an entry: browser.newtab.blocked followed by "user set" and to the right, what appears to be a registry string of characters.
How do I restore the original new tab function?
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Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 12.0 r0
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 11.0.06
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.51.2 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
- RealPlayer Download Plugin
- 5.1.20913.0
- RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In
- RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader HTML5VideoShim Plug-In
- RealDownloader Plugin
- ActiveTouch General Plugin Container Version 105
- Motive Plugin for Mozilla Browsers
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
- DRM Netscape Network Object
- Npdsplay dll
- DRM Store Netscape Plugin
- Rhapsody Player Engine Plugin
Application
- Firefox 26.0
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
- Support URL: https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/26.0/WINNT/en-US/
Extensions
- AniWeather 0.8.39 ({4176DFF4-4698-11DE-BEEB-45DA55D89593})
- Flashblock 1.5.17 ({3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a})
- Ghostery 5.1.0 (firefox@ghostery.com)
- IE View 1.5.6 ({6e84150a-d526-41f1-a480-a67d3fed910d})
- Lightshot (screenshot tool) 3.1.0 ({394DCBA4-1F92-4f8e-8EC9-8D2CB90CB69B})
- Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 0.0.0 ({20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b})
- Norton Identity Safe Toolbar 2014.6.2.3 ({F04D2D30-776C-4d02-8627-8E4385ECA58D})
- Norton Vulnerability Protection 12.0.5.3 - 1 ({BBDA0591-3099-440a-AA10-41764D9DB4DB})
- Print/Print Preview 0.9 ({19EB90DC-A456-458b-8AAC-616D91AAFCE1})
- Troubleshooter 1.1a (troubleshooter@mozilla.org)
- Copernic Desktop Search - Home Connector 3.0.3.13 ({83D65D9A-9CCA-439B-9E4A-EC1FE481B443}) (Inactive)
- RealDownloader 1.3.3 ({DF153AFF-6948-45d7-AC98-4FC4AF8A08E2}) (Inactive)
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
- adapterDescription2:
- adapterDeviceID: 0x0427
- adapterDeviceID2:
- adapterDrivers: nv4_disp
- adapterDrivers2:
- adapterRAM: Unknown
- adapterRAM2:
- adapterVendorID: 0x10de
- adapterVendorID2:
- direct2DEnabled: False
- direct2DEnabledMessage: [u'tryNewerDriver', u'182.65']
- directWriteEnabled: False
- directWriteVersion: 0.0.0.0
- driverDate: 11-16-2007
- driverDate2:
- driverVersion: 6.14.11.5683
- driverVersion2:
- info: {u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'skia', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'cairo', u'AzureContentBackend': u'none', u'AzureSkiaAccelerated': 0}
- isGPU2Active: False
- numAcceleratedWindows: 0
- numAcceleratedWindowsMessage: [u'tryNewerDriver', u'182.65']
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRendererMessage: [u'tryNewerDriver', u'182.65']
- windowLayerManagerRemote: False
- windowLayerManagerType: Basic
Modified Preferences
- accessibility.typeaheadfind: True
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand: False
- browser.sessionstore.upgradeBackup.latestBuildID: 20131205075310
- browser.startup.homepage: http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ibm
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20131205075310
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 26.0
- browser.tabs.loadInBackground: False
- browser.tabs.warnOnClose: False
- dom.mozApps.used: True
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 26.0
- font.internaluseonly.changed: True
- font.name.monospace.x-western: Arial
- font.name.serif.x-western: Arial
- font.size.fixed.x-western: 16
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1390941438
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 53638
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf,application/x-mplayer2
- plugin.importedState: True
- plugin.state.np32dsw: 0
- plugin.state.npgeplugin: 0
- plugin.state.npgoogleupdate: 0
- plugin.state.npmozcouponprinter: 0
- plugin.state.nppdf: 2
- plugin.state.npplayerplugin: 0
- plugin.state.nprndlchromebrowserrecordext: 0
- privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: True
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
- privacy.sanitize.timeSpan: 2
- storage.vacuum.last.index: 1
- storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite: 1388862218
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
Chosen Solution
I think the problem isnt this option, try start FIrefox in Safe Mode:
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Helpful Reply
You can check for problems caused by a corrupted localstore.rdf file.
Question owner
Thanks for the help. Could not find this file, so I reset and reconfigured FF.
Question owner
Restart in safe mode, and other suggestions I read, did not fix my problem. So I did the FF reset, reconfigured my settings and now all is good again. Thanks for your help.