I don't see the gear icon to delete a page that keeps showing up when I open a new tab

Hello and I appreciate the help because I want to just firefox to work the way that it used to and I am completely lost as to how THIS happened.

I have windows 7 64 bit. I have just once again uninstalled and reinstalled firefox. That has not solved the issue.
It is this:
When I have firefox open, and I click the plus sign to open a new tab, it now goes to BING and I did NOT set that. I want it to be a blank page. Like before. I have a home page. I had to CHANGE IT after reinstalling firefox AGAIN because it was automatically set to BING and I don't use it, don't want to, at this point, I don't even want to see it.
But after what seemed like a headache I got the homepage back that I wanted.
But opening a new tab shows bing and the instructions here say use the gear tab to set my preferences. I do not see any gear on the upper right hand side.

What is going on? BING took over from firefox? All I see on the right side are icons of favorites, downloads "your tabs to group" and "start a conversation", and then the icon "open menu".
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Gina

Install this extension.
https://addons.Mozilla.org/en-us/Firefox/addon/SearchReset/
I'll run to reset the specific preferences and then disappear. Among the prefs it resets to zero is the new URL of Page tab.

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