Blank New Tab

I tried this think (1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the filter box, type or paste newtab and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the browser.newtab.url preference and enter the desired value:
(i) Page thumbnails (default)
about:newtab
and it worked for the first time...and then when i closed the firefox and reopened it the new tab was blank the there were no thunbails displayed nothing!!...then i tried to reset firefox!the thunbails were there and they were alright...then i closed the firefox,reopened it and still the same thing!what is happening,can you help me please?

if you want the newtab to show, change that pref to about:newtab and or hit the button in the top left corner of the page. No registry cleaning needed.

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