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When i'm opening a new tab, in the adress bar is a string shown which i have to double click to enter an URL

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it always shows the following string: moz-extension://419dc7c2-3133-49ba-bc9c-13f4d28bf953/newTab.xhtml & i have to double click in it to type in something. in earlier version the adress bar was empty & ready to type.

it always shows the following string: moz-extension://419dc7c2-3133-49ba-bc9c-13f4d28bf953/newTab.xhtml & i have to double click in it to type in something. in earlier version the adress bar was empty & ready to type.

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Try to uninstall and reinstall the new tab extension.

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Hi   !

Would you try to contact Geoff Lankow, the developer of the add-on 'New Tab Tools' about that  ? Or maybe first you could scroll down to 'About this Add-on' and see what he says there :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/

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Try to uninstall and reinstall the new tab extension.