Reviews for Custom New Tab Page
Custom New Tab Page by MethodGrab
Review by Ali S. Fakename
Rated 4 out of 5
by Ali S. Fakename, 3 years agoIt kind of works... but it doesn't do what I want. I don't think it's something the creator can fix.
I have the same problem that a user SouthOkanagan reported in 2018, it won't allow URLs like https://www.google.com to be set at the new tab page.
The developer asked "Why would you want to do that ? You can search in the toolbar".
The reason I want to do this is because I **HATE** searching in the address bar at the top of the screen.
I want to have https://www.google.com appear whenever I open a new tab or window. I want the search to be focused in the centre of the screen, where my eyes are looking, not at the top of the screen.
It's crazy that Firefox doesn't have this as an option for new tabs anyway.
This add in is a great idea, but I can't use it for what I want... but that's:
a) Google's fault for not allowing embedding (though I can see why they do that to avoid some kind of "skinning" with keylogging or something
b) Even more so, it's firefox's fault for not having an option in the first place to set a custom URL for new tabs... sigh.
I have the same problem that a user SouthOkanagan reported in 2018, it won't allow URLs like https://www.google.com to be set at the new tab page.
The developer asked "Why would you want to do that ? You can search in the toolbar".
The reason I want to do this is because I **HATE** searching in the address bar at the top of the screen.
I want to have https://www.google.com appear whenever I open a new tab or window. I want the search to be focused in the centre of the screen, where my eyes are looking, not at the top of the screen.
It's crazy that Firefox doesn't have this as an option for new tabs anyway.
This add in is a great idea, but I can't use it for what I want... but that's:
a) Google's fault for not allowing embedding (though I can see why they do that to avoid some kind of "skinning" with keylogging or something
b) Even more so, it's firefox's fault for not having an option in the first place to set a custom URL for new tabs... sigh.
77 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by superyeti, a month agoThanks this works. if someone is seeing an error about X-Frame, dont forget to go to the extension settings and enable "Remove Iframe header" option
- Rated 1 out of 5by Neon, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by erdnuesse, 3 months agoOkay for the feature, but changing the theme hard crashes the browser. Just cut the functionality, it's not needed but killing off potential work is just a disaster of an extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15170309, 3 months agoThe best tool that works perfectly.
It is no exaggeration to say that there is a Firefox add-on market just for this. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12781457, 4 months agoFirefox can't open this page
To protect your security, ..... doesn't allow Firefox to show the page if another website has embedded it. To view this page, you must open it in a new window. - Rated 5 out of 5by south, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18097713, 8 months agoBest option to have a custom url and not change the address bar, perfect
- Rated 5 out of 5by dirkules, 8 months agoDoes exactly what I want, awesome! No URL that's prefilled, I can just start typing and still have my selfhosted dashboard when opening a New Tab 🫰
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cloud, a year agoMost other new tab overrides just redirect to the url. But this extension uses an iframe I think. Another plus is when loading the new tab page you can set it to be dark mode or light mode, so no more flashes of white when loading a page that is dark. Give em a star on github too -> https://github.com/MethodGrab/firefox-custom-new-tab-page
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kis Albert, a year agoworks great, just need to tick those 2 checkboxes in option, could be default.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ángel, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mike B, a year agoIt works as it should and is great.
However, I'm so annoyed at Mozilla for making an addon to be necessary!!
It's so dumb that they don't let you change the NewTab url like they let you change your new window start page.
There is really NO reason for Mozilla NOT to off the ability to do so.
Well, I'm betting that it has to do with $$$ honestly. The default new tab page is all about Pocket and most of the default articles it gives you are to paid sites that Pocket (aka Mozilla) make money from.... soooooo, that is the ONLY reason why I can see them not offering.
Because lets face it, we open new tabs A LOT more then we do new windows. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18169319, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by PatchMixolydic, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Skparab1, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by John, a year agoAfter hunting for an extension that allows you to use a custom url as a new tab this is IT!
All the other extensions don't clear the url bar when making a new tab. So when you start typing the characters are appended to the url bar contents, meaning you need to manually clear the url bar each time.
This one fixes that! I've struggled with it for a month now, and finally found this extension. Thanks MethodGrab! - Rated 3 out of 5by Vindikato, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by trailjeep, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by gordo, 2 years agoDoes what it says on the tin, and I really appreciate that it does so while maintaining focus on the address bar.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17453031, 2 years agoThe only custom new tab addon that works well (with automatic selectable address bar)! Thanks to the dev.
- Rated 5 out of 5by David Wynn, 2 years agoThis is a great add on for displaying a simple, custom new tab page.
Especially if your page doesn't have links and just displays some JS enabled info, it's a great way to not pollute the address bar as you do so.
Works great for my simple use case! - Rated 5 out of 5by VeeIn3D, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dutchness, 2 years ago