Edit: I've just figured out how to have the new tab open a blank page BUT it's not exactly what I want. Once I have that new blank page open, if I click on a Search OR if I click on a favorite bookmark, I'd like it to overwrite that blank page rather than open a brand new tab.
I must say.. NS 8 is very confusing and not very user friendly in comparison with FF or IE or Opera for that matter. I'm surprised, given how great the orginal Netscape was. Did they create this hybrid for the uber-geek?
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20051012 Netscape/8.0.4



