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Firefox(s) opens with a null tab

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I have several machines, and a few of them will open firefox just fine, the browser starts and displays the new tab home page. But others will open to a null tab, nothing is there.

What's broken with the blank tab machines?

I've looked over all the possible settings for the home screen and they're the same on all the platforms.

I have several machines, and a few of them will open firefox just fine, the browser starts and displays the new tab home page. But others will open to a null tab, nothing is there. What's broken with the blank tab machines? I've looked over all the possible settings for the home screen and they're the same on all the platforms.

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You can check the homepage setting in "Settings -> Home".

Firefox supports multiple homepages separated by '|' (pipe) symbols.

cor-el said

You can check the homepage setting in "Settings -> Home". Firefox supports multiple homepages separated by '|' (pipe) symbols.

Been through all that already, nothing I set there is fixing the issue. Currently home is a custom URL and new tabs is firefox home. Custom URL is https://search.yahoo.com/ Clicking the HOME button brings the browser there.

You can check the target line in the Firefox desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties) to make sure nothing is appended after the path to the Firefox program.

cor-el said

You can check the target line in the Firefox desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties) to make sure nothing is appended after the path to the Firefox program.

It's doing it on several machines, all of which were working as expected up until a couple of days ago. All the machines are configured the same way.

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