Dual open new tab option

Just returned from a relative, who's also using FF. Much to my amazement, she has both a "Open new tab" icon on the menu bar and the "+" tab on the tab bar, whereas I can only drag it from one to the other, but there doesn't seem to be any way of having both options. It's not a very big deal, but sometimes it's useful to be able to open a new tab either way.
Is there any way of enabling this feature, and I'm not really afraid of editing any files to do so?

* New tab toolbar button: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-toolbar-button/

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''philipp [[#answer-669209|said]]''
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ok, as a follow up i'd recommend disabling half of the addons & restarting the browser - if the problem continues disable the other half & continue until you've narrowed it down to the culprit...
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