Why does a new tab page open along with my home page?

When I go online, I expect to have only my home page open, instead, I have two tabs, my home page tab and New Tab and the New Tab page is the page that actually opens. This just started yesterday, why??

Did you check the home page setting to make sure that it is still correct?
*Tools > Options > General > Startup: Home page
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page
Firefox supports multiple home pages separated by '|' (pipe) symbols.
You can check the target line in the Firefox desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties) to make sure that nothing is appended after the path to the Firefox program.
You can check for problems with preferences.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences

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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
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*[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
*[2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
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*http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Uninstalling+add-ons
*http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cannot%20uninstall%20an%20add-on
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_toolbars
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