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Middle click opens a bookmark or link, instead of plain new tab with default home page

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Veleriphon
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Specifically, when I middle-click the empty area of the tab row, the generated tab is whatever link was copied from the address bar by (somehow) a previous middle-click. I want my default behavior back.

Specifically, when I middle-click the empty area of the tab row, the generated tab is whatever link was copied from the address bar by (somehow) a previous middle-click. I want my default behavior back.

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philipp
philipp
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hello, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...

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cor-el
cor-el
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What is the current value of the browser.newtab.url pref on the about:config page?

You can open the about:config page via the location bar