Reviews for New Tab Override
New Tab Override by Sören Hentzschel
Review by sctech
Rated 5 out of 5
by sctech, 2 months ago976 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 希灵小兵, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13449591, 7 days agoIch finde die Erweiterung Top, aber seit einiger Zeit fällt mir auf, dass der Fokus bei meiner Startseite startpage.com nicht mehr auf die Suchleiste gesetzt wird, obwohl die Option "Fokus auf Webseite statt in Adressleiste setzen" aktiviert ist. Geht das nur mir so, oder ist das ein Bug?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18218893, 2 months agoBroken. Setting "current home page" does not work if homepage is a local file. Even though hitting the home button works for local files. So it should be possible to navigate to any homepage on the event.
They support something they call "local file" option, but it is not a local file, instead it is a static copy of the file loaded somewhere into the extension storage. Therefore any changes to the local file are not reflected. E.g. it is not possible to sync/backup such file.
Also URL bar of the new tab is cluttered with homepage URL, so its very cumbersome to use it.
Perhaps it is not fault of the extension itself, and it is just result of infamous FF anti-features regarding extensions they push constantly. But anyway, it does not work as described. Uninstalling.Developer response
posted 2 months agoNo, it's not broken, that's not true. Yes, local files don't work. But that's explained in the extension and a restriction of the WebExtension framework. It's not an add-on issue at all. Just set-up a local server and you won't have any problems, it doesn't take more than five minutes.
Please read the instructions and ask for help before giving bad reviews for no reason. - Rated 5 out of 5by 태준쌤, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rotozaza, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by winphreak, 2 months agotl;dr - A+ addon, simple, light. And I don't have to deal with friggin' Firefox Start 😆
angry ramble - It was nice when Firefox had features and customization almost two decades ago. Now they slash features, save ALL OF THE telemetry data, then spam email/advertise to buy their VPN/Relay service. They're turning into their own enemy 🙄Developer response
posted 2 months agoThank you! :)
Regaring your off-topic paragraph: Firefox allows more customization than EVERY other browser. Telemetry is good for users and everyone with an opinion about the product should keep it enabled. It's ridiculous that the people who disable telemetry are the same who are angry because Mozilla removes their favourite feature. Also, Mozilla does not spam their users. That's just not true at all. - Rated 5 out of 5by Nicolas Francisco, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by KitKatyusha, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by KKK, 3 months agoMakes my life easier!~ Appreciate the developer explains the reasons of giving rights to the AddOn. That increases the transparency~
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aaron, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14643963, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kshyhoo, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hugo, 4 months agoexcellent should be a default thing, my dad switched to firefox just for this!
Developer response
posted 4 months agoThank you!
It was a default feature of Firefox some years ago. But Mozilla had to remove it because it was abused by third party software to change the new tab page to adware pages without user consent. For that reason it's only possible for add-ons now. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18489395, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18387563, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by John, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17141374, 5 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by CherKab, 5 months agothanks a lot for your firefox app & work
Now i can openn new tab to the way that i want.
2 issues that i would like to report:
1) is it possible to empty the address bar field so as to not do it by ourselves ?
2) the personal bar disappears when your app is in use. can it be possible to provide an option so that it keep stand if it has already setted in firefox?
regardsDeveloper response
posted 5 months agoThanks for the review.
1. No, that's not possible for WebExtensions.
2. I don't know what "personal bar" means, but New Tab Override doesn't change anything with regard to toolbars. Do you mean the bookmarks toolbar? Firefox has a setting to a) always show the toolbar b) only for new tabs (but that's only the case when you override it with this add-on!) or c) never show it. I guess, you should use a) in that case. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18385732, 7 months agoan annoying bug:
when you open a new tab , then go for a url , u cannot highlight a word for copy,it turn grey, disable this plugin can solve the problem.Developer response
posted 5 months agoThis issue is not related to New Tab Override at all. It's a known Firefox bug that can happen under certain circumstances.
Thanks for the great rating!