Reviews for New Tab Override
New Tab Override by Sören Hentzschel
96 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13517317, 7 years ago
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posted 7 years agoPlease tell me what is missing if you give only four stars. Without comment a review is not very useful because I, as developer of the add-on, does not know what I have to improve to make you happy. Thank you. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13770695, 7 years agoThe new tab extension works exactly how I like. Except I would love it if there was an option that stops the last tab from closing unless you click the close button.
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Right now ctrl W will close the current tab, if you have lots of tabs open and you hit ctrl w several times it will close them all and eventually close the browser window. It would be nice to check a box to turn this option on or off.
To prevent this from happening right now you have to go into the Firefox preferences: about:config and set the browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab pref to false.
BTW, being able to focus on window and usability are the main reasons this add-on is superior to all the other "new tab" type add-ons out there right now. Great Job!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for your review.
> Except I would love it if there was an option that stops the last tab from closing unless you click the close button.
I don't know what this means. Could you please explain? - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13692283, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12618754, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13665998, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13581683, 7 years agoI have my own page with links to all of the services I use regularly. This extension gives me the ability to instantly open a new tab that contains all of those links that I use most often.
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posted 7 years agoThank you for your review.
You gave only four stars but you didn't say what is missing. Please tell me what is missing, otherwise I don't know what I have to improve. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13534191, 7 years agoits the one and only proper tab replacement for this f*cking WebExtension sh*t. thanks for this, i'm probably donate you some $. BTW can you enable the Javascript on local file? and external CSS loading?
- Rated 4 out of 5by Jack Ujjerson, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13512746, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13489682, 7 years agoIch hatte vorher TabMixPlus und war sehr zufrieden damit. New Tab ist für meine Bedürfnisse gleichwertig, da TabMixPlus nach dem neuen Update von Firefox nicht mehr funktioniert. Genau da liegt auch das Problem: Ich hatte mir eine eigene Startseite gebastelt die dann bei einem neuen Tab angezeigt wird. Das lässt der neue Firefox aber nicht mehr zu. Ich kann im Add-on zwar eine lokale Seite wählen, diese wird aber nicht richtig angezeigt, da Bilder und co. von lokalen Quellen grundsätzlich geblockt werden. Sicherheit hin oder her, es sollte zumindest dem Nutzer selbst überlassen werden, ob er das will oder nicht. Mein Fazit zum "Größten Update aller Zeiten": performe Verbesserung, optische Verschlechterung, eingeschränkte Benutzerfreiheit
- Rated 4 out of 5by owlcroft, 7 years agoIt just works. The one little thing I'd like to see is the tab title being the actual page title (as in its HTML), rather than just "New Tab". Give me that and I'll give it the 5th star!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13420543, 7 years agoThanks I am now able to show my bookmarks file when a new tab opens. Only problem is that the field is filled with "moz-extension....." Any way to clear this field after a new tab is created?
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posted 7 years agoNo. As you can read in the add-on's settings page it's not possible for WebExtensions. - Rated 4 out of 5by Duncan McIntosh, 7 years agoIt does the trick, and I prefer about:home to about:newtab. My only request is that instead of going to an intermediary address (moz-extension://.../html/newtab.html) set it to the default. It works well other than that.
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posted 7 years agoThank you for your feedback. There is nothing what I can do because there is no other way to override the new tab page, I have to call an extension script and this script has an URL. You have to suggest Mozilla to implement a better solution. ;) - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12940214, 8 years agoNow my retina doesn't burn when I click on new tab. I wish it was more responsive though.
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posted 8 years agoThank you for your feedback. Unfortunately I don't knwo what do you mean with "my retina doesn't burn when I click on new tab". And regarding responsive, the design *is* responsive. If you see a bug could you please open an issue on GitHub? Thank you. - Rated 4 out of 5by Duncan Moore, 8 years agoI was hoping to use this extension to open about:newtab during "Private Browsing", but I see from older replies that not all about: pages are allowed with Web Extensions. If about:newtab is allowed, could you add it?
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posted 8 years agoabout:newtab is not allowed, maybe it will be allowed in the future. I already asked Mozilla and there was kind of agreement that it makes sense. But I don't think it will be possible in Firefox 56 and 57. But once it will be possible I'll add about:newtab to the allowed URIs. - Rated 4 out of 5by Jeta, 8 years agoIn order to use Superstart extension, you can go to about:config, look for extensions.superstart.enable.searchengine.select and change the valor to true. This way, you can make work your about:superstart custom url despite the http://. It works for me. I guess this applies to other extensions.
Regards.Developer response
posted 8 years agoThank you for your positive review. What is missing for the 5. star? Of cource I want to improve the add-on… - Rated 4 out of 5by Adie, 8 years agoGreat addon, although setting focus / highlighting the address URL would have been ideal for my requirements. Using this plugin in conjuction with 'New Tab Homepage' seems to resolve the issue. Just remember to install or activate 'New Tab Homepage' AFTER this plugin, as the reverse won't work.
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posted 8 years agoThank you for your feedback.
"New Tab Homepage" is no WebExtension. So you could also use New Tab Override 6, it's also no WebExtension and has the mentioned feature. Then you don't need a second add-on. ;)
The WebExtension version of New Tab Override will get this feature as soon as it will be possible for WebExtensions. It will be possible in the future, probably with Firefox 57. - Rated 4 out of 5by batel, 8 years agoI use SpeedDial as my homepage and up to the latest revision it worked fine. Now my homepage (chrome://speeddial/content/speeddial.xul) no longer comes up in a new tab. I see from reading that this is no longer possible to make work. Hopefully there will be a work around soon. I've always used Firefox mainly due to the great add-ons available but it seems Mozilla is making it very hard on the developers. Nearly all of my add-on's show "legacy" with I suppose means they'll stop working in November.
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posted 8 years agoThank you for your feedback.
There are no chrome:// URIs for add-ons in Firefox 57 and higher. So Speed Dial has to update the add-on and should include an option to use it as new tab page since WebExtension also can't open URIs of another WebExtensions as far as I know… - Rated 4 out of 5by RobertVisser, 8 years agoThanks for your work on this.
In Firefox Preferences my Home Page is set to chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul . This opens my Bookmarks when Firefox starts.
Before your most recent revision on August 12, I could also specify chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul in the Custom URL dialogue in New Tab Override. Please restore that option (assuming Mozilla enables that option in a future WebExtensions API) or alternatively enable an option to choose the Home Page specified in Firefox Preferences.
Incidentally, in about:config extensions.newtaboverride@agenedia.com.url still specifies chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul , it's just no longer loading when I click on the "+" to open a new tab.Developer response
posted 8 years agoThank you for your feedback.
New Tab Override 7.0 (and higher) is a WebExtension, the only allowed add-on architecture on Firefox 57 and higher (Firefox Nightly is already on version 57). WebExtensions are only allowed to use http://, https:// and a very small subset of about: pages to use as new tab page. So there is nothing what I can do for your use case. It's not possible to restore this feature.
It's also not possible to read the homepage at the moment. It will be possible again in the future, but it's not possible in Firefox 55 and Firefox 56, it will be possible in Firefox 57 at the earliest. - Rated 4 out of 5by Latreso, 8 years agoAddon now not supported localhost URL!
(thanks for very fast feedback, now waiting for update ;) )Developer response
posted 8 years agoAnd where is your report on the bugtracker? It's really bad style to give one star reviews without asking the developer to check a possible bug or to implement a feature.
I'll add this feature again in the next update…