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Since upgrading to firefox 36, my speed dial page no longer is visible, although it still seems to be there.

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Doug
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I use my speed dial page as my home page. Up to last week, when I was using ff 35, I had no problems. The page opened, the tabs or tiles were visible, and I could use Alt+number to open a page if I preferred. Since the ff 36 upgrade, however, when I open ff, there is nothing visible. It appears to be a blank page. However, the speed dial page is stil l listed as my home page in options, and, curiously, I can still use alt+number to go to those pages. I suppose I could learn to live with this, but what if I want to edit one of these pages? I no longer seem to have access to them. when I click on the blank page, nothing happens. Same for right-clicking. Also, I have a second speeed dial page, and although I figured out a way to access those pages, I can no longer open that entire speed dial page, since I had to go through the first, or home, speed dial page. I should mentiion that I am blind, so I don't like to try to change themes, etc. if I don't have to. Please let me know the solution. Like I said, I am working around it now.

I use my speed dial page as my home page. Up to last week, when I was using ff 35, I had no problems. The page opened, the tabs or tiles were visible, and I could use Alt+number to open a page if I preferred. Since the ff 36 upgrade, however, when I open ff, there is nothing visible. It appears to be a blank page. However, the speed dial page is stil l listed as my home page in options, and, curiously, I can still use alt+number to go to those pages. I suppose I could learn to live with this, but what if I want to edit one of these pages? I no longer seem to have access to them. when I click on the blank page, nothing happens. Same for right-clicking. Also, I have a second speeed dial page, and although I figured out a way to access those pages, I can no longer open that entire speed dial page, since I had to go through the first, or home, speed dial page. I should mentiion that I am blind, so I don't like to try to change themes, etc. if I don't have to. Please let me know the solution. Like I said, I am working around it now.

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Scribe
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Hi, try this: Type about:config into the address bar, press Enter, accept the warning, scroll down to browser.newtab.url and make sure 'Value' is set to about:newtab (right click to change it). (Take care not to change anything else).

Also make sure in Options that 'When Firefox starts' is set to 'Show my home page.'

I hope that will work for you.

Doug
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Well, both of those settings were already as you suggested. Remember, the problem is not that the page is not there, but instead, it is not visible. I know, sounds crazy.