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Why does the new tab icon keep disappearing after I've closed all but one tab?

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The new tab icon appears at the left of my tabs, but as soon as I close all tabs in the browser until there's just one left, the new tab button disappears. I've tried resetting customisation to default and adding a new tab button but neither work. After I've opened a new tab (via CTRL+T) the icon reappears?

The new tab icon appears at the left of my tabs, but as soon as I close all tabs in the browser until there's just one left, the new tab button disappears. I've tried resetting customisation to default and adding a new tab button but neither work. After I've opened a new tab (via CTRL+T) the icon reappears?

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in this case you could either reset your old profile (which will keep your bookmarks & passwords) or move the most important personal data from your old profile over to the newly created one: Recovering important data from an old profile

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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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Hello madperson. I have the same issue when I restart firefox in safemode. Besides, the only add-on I'm using is ad-blocker.

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it shouldn't be happening :-/

can you look inside your profile folder for a file that overwrites your ui-layout? go to firefox > help > troubleshooting information, click on profile folder/show folder and close all firefox windows afterwards. a windows explorer window should open up - in there navigate to the chrome-subfolder and look for a file named userContent.css - if it's there please try to delete or rename the file... directly inside the profile folder you can also have a go at renaming/deleting the localstore.rdf file, however it should have already been wiped when you did reset the toolbar customizations.

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I've done exactly as you said and the userContent.css file isn't there, although userContent-example.css etc. is. However, I did try renaming/deleting the localstore.rdf and it did not work :S.

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this is very strange. can you test it with a new profile too?

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Creating a new profile worked - the new tab button appeared correctly! What do you recommend?

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in this case you could either reset your old profile (which will keep your bookmarks & passwords) or move the most important personal data from your old profile over to the newly created one: Recovering important data from an old profile