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This question refers to Firefox 8.01 running in Windows98se with
Kernal-Ex.

First I have to ask why you're using FF 8 - or point out to you that
bookmarks and the recent-history drop-down bar don't work on FF8 with
win-98/KernelEx. I believe that they do work in FF7.

How can I make New Tabs open my homepage.

I can confirm that with FF2, new tabs indeed DO NOT open according to
your selected home-page (which I didn't know because my default is a
blank page) and apparently this behavior extends up to at least very
recent versions of FF (who can keep track of them any more...)

However, I can also confirm (because I've just installed it) that this
addon DOES work with FF2 and DOES do exactly what you want:

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NewTabURL 2.2.3
August 13, 2011

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...don/newtaburl/

Select the default URL when new tabs are opened.

The options a "A blank page", "The home page", "The current page" or
a user defined URL.

When there is an URL in the clipboard, it is also possible to open
automatically that URL in the new tab.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...don/newtaburl/
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