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No web thumbs on the tab page

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From when i upgraded to FF 13.0, i noticed that the thumbnails from the new tab page are missing.
The thumbnails box and titles are there, but no thumbnail image.

I had FF 15 Nightly, and at first it didnt had thumbnails, but as i re browsed those sites, it started getting the thumbnails.
I upgraded to 13.0.1 when it got out, and still the same.

PS: I still have nightly installed but not using it.
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This should give you the information you need about the newtab feature http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thu ... re-missing
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I dont think that helps.... I never had any thumbnails at all, from when i made the update.
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TheKiller wrote:I dont think that helps.... I never had any thumbnails at all, from when i made the update.

If you do NOT cache to disk or clear your disk cache at shutdown thumbnails will never be saved, therefore they will never be displayed
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Firefox 15 → Firefox 13 is not an upgrade :roll:

In Firefox 15 Firefox 16, thumbnails are no longer dependent on the cache.

Edit: It was backed out of Firefox 15, so now Firefox 16 is the earliest that thumbnails might start being stored under the profile folder.
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I had FF 15 Nightly,

Gingerbread Man wrote:Firefox 15 → Firefox 13 is not an upgrade :roll:

In Firefox 15, thumbnails are no longer dependent on the cache.

I think it was dependent when 15 was a nightly :wink:
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..... So what do i have to do, to enable the darn thumbnails.?
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TheKiller wrote:..... So what do i have to do, to enable the darn thumbnails.?

Go to Menu Tools > Options > Privacy and make your settings like it shows in the "Use custom settings for history" section of this help document > http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/set ... vacy+panel
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My browser has all the settings from the image and its still not working :)
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If you aren't in private browsing mode, and your disk cache is enabled browser.cache.disk.enable, and the "clear history when firefox closes" box is unchecked as shown there, the thumbnails should generate. Maybe it is time for a new profile. Or wait for Firefox 16+ which should put the thumbnails not in the cache.
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polita wrote:If you aren't in private browsing mode, and your disk cache is enabled browser.cache.disk.enable

Fixed ! Thank you.
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Bump.
I noticed that the browser doesnt want to ever save and show the site thumbnail for facebook. Why is that?
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Thumbnails are not stored for sites that send the Cache-Control: no-store header. A fair amount of sites fall into this category, including Facebook and Twitter.

Bug 756881 - New tab thumbnails not displayed (or old images displayed) for Facebook, Twitter (sites using Cache-Control no-store)

The developers have already taken note of the above report. Please don't add pointless comments to it. See Bugzilla etiquette.
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Thanks for letting me know, Gingerbread Man.
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