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Lolu chungechunge lwabekwa kunqolobane. Uyacelwa ubuze umbuzo omusha uma udinga usizo.

why does the tab icon at top of page not function, but new tab at bottom of page does

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davidcox
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To whom it may concern, grateful for your help with the following problem & apologies if my original request was rather abrupt: "The tab cross at the bookmark bar at the top of the page does not load a new tab when the tab next to the mozilla firefox start page is clicked. However the task open new tab under the mozilla firefox box at the taskbar at the bottom of the page does open a new tab."

I'm not sure what to do with the provided browser and operating system details, i.e. the various plug-in. etc details. I am afraid I am a computer/IT dinosaur.

Regards, David Cox

To whom it may concern, grateful for your help with the following problem & apologies if my original request was rather abrupt: "The tab cross at the bookmark bar at the top of the page does not load a new tab when the tab next to the mozilla firefox start page is clicked. However the task open new tab under the mozilla firefox box at the taskbar at the bottom of the page does open a new tab." I'm not sure what to do with the provided browser and operating system details, i.e. the various plug-in. etc details. I am afraid I am a computer/IT dinosaur. Regards, David Cox

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FredMcD
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New Tab Override (browser.newtab.url replacement) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/

With Firefox 41 (and higher), it's no longer possible to customize the page shown in a new tab via changing the preference browser.newtab.url in about.config. Because of the fact that hijackers abused the preference in the past, Mozilla decided to remove it (see bug 1118285). Fortunately, by removing it, Mozilla also introduced a new API to bring this functionality back to life as an add-on. This add-on allows the user to choose a certain page in a new tab.