When I open a new internet "tab", only a blank page comes up, not my saved "home page"

Running a Mac, had a new hard drive installed, reloaded Firefox, etc....
When I open a new tab for a new internet page, my home page does not open, I only get a blank page "untitled". I never had this issue with the other HD in the Mac. All updates are current

You must have had an extension that added that feature to Firefox with the old hard drive.
New Tab Homepage extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777

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