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on opening "new tab" function screen is blank and there is no tab icon in upper right .

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clicking on '+' gives a blank page with no tabs of previous sites. No tab icon appears in upper right corner, no scrolling possible. Using laptop with win7. Works properly in desktop using XP.

clicking on '+' gives a blank page with no tabs of previous sites. No tab icon appears in upper right corner, no scrolling possible. Using laptop with win7. Works properly in desktop using XP.

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Hi newtabs

the New Tab Page function is in firefox 13 and above.

you have 12.0 (it is unsupported btw)

thank you

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Hi newtabs

the New Tab Page function is in firefox 13 and above.

you have 12.0 (it is unsupported btw)

thank you

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So you need to update to the current release Firefox 15.0 to get the New Tab page.

You can find the latest Firefox release in all languages and for all Operating Systems here:

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I have 16.0.2 and and the tab icon does not appear in the upper right hand corner.

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You can check the browser.newtab.url pref(s) on the about:config page.

See this article about the New Tab page (about:newtab):

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I finally got it taken care of. Thank you.

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You're welcome.

I assume that in your case the New Tab page was set to a different (possibly about:blank) URL.