Reviews for Custom New Tab Page
Custom New Tab Page by MethodGrab
77 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Karde Momsen, 5 years agoDoes what it says in the ways it can, considering the limitations
- Rated 5 out of 5by student 20, 5 years agoThis extension is great! It does exactly what it says, and nothing else. It would be nice, I suppose, if the custom page could be set within the regular Firefox options, but I'm not complaining.
What I WILL complain about is that I need an addon to do this at all. What the heck, Firefox? Not being able to set a new tab page without an extension is just... weird. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14020896, 5 years agoThere is a major bug, most people will be using this to have their own start page, the issue is, when you click any link from this new tab page, it loads it in its iframe and dousnt redirect to the proper website you have clicked.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoUnfortunately this is a known issue (https://github.com/MethodGrab/firefox-custom-new-tab-page/issues/1) with no easy solution unless you control the site used as your new tab page. If you do control the site you can add `target="_top"` to the links to make them open in the top frame.
I've added a note about this to the caveats section of the add-on description. - Rated 3 out of 5by Daupaloffer, 5 years agoFantastic in every way apart from the fact that it flashes white when loading.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for your feedback. What would you expect to see while the site is loading? A dark screen instead? I've opened an issue and any input on a solution would be appreciated https://github.com/MethodGrab/firefox-custom-new-tab-page/issues/3. - Rated 5 out of 5by Pluggie, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15090805, 5 years agoSimple, unobtrusive, doesn't require a bunch of questionable permissions, and does exactly what I wanted. Thanks!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15007083, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13187304, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14774827, 6 years agoDid exactly what I wanted, and was simple to set up.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sin, 6 years agoDoes exactly as expected. A much better option for changing my new tab than a bloated addon from elsewhere that requires access to the entire browser for no reason.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Henry Luo, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Toadtoad, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14430297, 6 years agoMuch better than New Tab Override, I would say -1 star for no support for local files but sadly Mozilla doesn't allow extensions to access local files. I love how it auto focuses on search along with giving you the ability to set the new tab title! 9/10
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bonaparte, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13937307, 6 years agoWorks like it should. :)
It open the specific URL (wikipedia in my case) and focuses an empty address-bar.
it just lacks the title of the the newly opend tab (it shows "new tab" instead of "wikipedia") ...but thats negligible.Developer response
posted 6 years agoFor security reasons it's not possible to set the title automatically but I've just published v0.3.0 which lets you manually set the title from the options page. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12623004, 6 years agoIt opens the tab to bing which i want but when search bing the websites not open so useless
- Rated 5 out of 5by desto, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14271624, 6 years agoDoes exactly what I want, without requiring access to anything sensitive (like my browser history, or data entered into any web page)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14143331, 6 years agoIn one of my profiles, I want new tabs to open my Home Page: http://localhost:8090. But when I change the New Tab URL to this address, the extension ignores it. My homepage works fine, and I'm certainly not blocking iframes. Do I have to somehow explicitly enable or add an iframe to my home page for this extension to work?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vincent, 7 years ago
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThe add-on never claimed to support local files. Local file:// URLs do not work because of security restrictions imposed by Mozilla. I've updated the description to make this clear.- Rated 5 out of 5by syntax53, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Владимир Викторович, 7 years agoОчень,очень классное и нужное расширение!!!!! Можно вписывать адрес любых онлайн закладок и они всегда будут как стартовая страница. Года 3 я этим расширением пользуюсь в опере и вполне доволен. Рекомендую воспользоваться.Не пожалеете.
- Rated 3 out of 5by @SouthOkanagan, 7 years agoI can't get https://www.google.com/ncr or https://www.google.com to work as the saved new tab page.
Other search engines work just fine like startpage.com etc, having the most popular search engine (google,com), in my eyes, should be a priority.
Any ideas?Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for your review.
Unfortunately this is not something that can be fixed.
The way this addon avoids changing the address bar content is by creating an iframe and displaying your chosen site in that iframe. The problem is that sites (like Google) can set an HTTP header that blocks other sites (like this addon) from displaying their pages inside an iframe.
If you look in the addon options page, next to where you choose the URL, it does warn you about this by saying "The site must allow iframe embedding or it won't work".
However, in your case, I don't really understand the use case for having google.com as your new tab page if you can just search straight from the address bar? Maybe Firefox address bar "smart keywords" would work better so you could just type something like "img my icon" in the address bar and be taken straight to the Google image search results for "my icon". Here's a Firefox post about using "smart keywords" if you're interested https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar. - Rated 5 out of 5by Heracles, 7 years ago