Reviews for Custom New Tab Page
Custom New Tab Page by MethodGrab
6 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Vindikato, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Elliott Slaughter, 4 years agoThis extension doesn't work for file:// URLs. I'd prefer not to host my new tab page publicly, just so I can load it on my own computer. Otherwise seems to work fine (assuming the target page is accessible via http or https).
- Rated 3 out of 5by Daupaloffer, 6 years agoFantastic in every way apart from the fact that it flashes white when loading.
Developer response
posted 6 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 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15007083, 6 years ago
- 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.