Opening a webpage goes to previously open tab

Hopefully the question title describes the issue
Firefox must have done an update because for example I have a browers open with 10 tabs and then open a new tab to load google.com If one of the previous 10 tabs had google.com as a page I had loaded clicked or not then it jumps to that tab instead of using what I wanted as a brand new tab
How do I go about restoring this option as I can't see a way in the options screen and I can't figure out on about:config what to change there.
Thanks again

See:
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Location Bar: When using the location bar, suggest:
*Bookmarks
*History
*Open Tabs
You can remove the check mark on "Open Tabs" if this item has a tick.

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