New Tabs appear as :Blank, why don't they open in my home page every time?

I have set my home page to the standard Google Ireland search page and this works fine. But when I open a new tab, it opens as a blank tab every time.
The TAB section under TOOLS does not allow me specify what I would like a new tab to open as....
It just opens a blank tab every time.
How can I make a new tab open as the home page every time?

New Tab Homepage extension: <br />
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777

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