<p dir="ltr">On Feb 23, 2013 8:46 PM, "Basil Chupin" <<a href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au">blchupin@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I begin this post with a blushing face.<br>
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> What are those 9 empty rectangles when one opens a New Tab; what are they for and how does one get anything into them?<br>
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> Pointing me to the doc re this would be gratefully appreciated.<br>
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> BC<br>
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> AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor<br>
> 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM<br>
> Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU<br>
They appear on about:newtab, right? If so, they should be filled with frequently-used sites.<br>
If it doesn't fill automatically after a while, you might have flipped a pref or something. Try standard troubleshooting techniques to fix (safe mode, new profile).</p>