after clicking the + sign the previous tab no longer shows
after clicking the + sign to display another tab, the previous tab no longer shows for me to click again
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Would you like to load the new tab in the background?
If you click the plus then you are opening a new tab. This tab will be the tab with the about:newtab page. There is a cogwheel button in the top right corner with some options.
You need to close the tab or click the tab on the Tab bar to go to another (previous) tab.
Do you mean that you do not see other tabs on the Tab bar or do you mean the page that opens in a new tab?
The browser.newtab.url pref is no longer supported in Firefox (41+), so you can no longer set the new tab page via this pref.
You can look at this extension to set the new tab page:
- New Tab Override: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/
You can set the new tab URL setting via the Options/Preferences of the extension on the about:addons page.
You can look at this extension if you use the home page as the new tab page.
- New Tab Homepage: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-homepage/
Classic Theme Restorer includes this feature as well. In current CTR versions (1.3.9+) you find "New tab page url" in the Tabs (1) section.
You can use pages like these:
- the default new tab page with the tiles is about:newtab
- the default home page is about:home
- for a blank page use about:blank
- for Super Start use about:superstart
- use the URL of a web page
See the about:about page for available about pages.