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Reviews for New Tab Override

New Tab Override by Sören Hentzschel

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  • by cohuttabill, 12 days ago
    Fixes a simple issue that Mozilla caused when they removed the ability to set the new tab to whatever page you wanted. In my case Google search.

    Developer response

    posted 11 days ago
    Thank you for your feedback!

    To be clear: There were very good reasons for this decision at the time, and it was definitely in the users' best interest, even if not every user understood the reason behind it.
  • by Firefox user 14009125, 23 days ago
    it doesn't seem like you can sync custom urls, that would be nice.

    Developer response

    posted 11 days ago
    Thank you for your feedback!

    I deliberately decided against syncing because I'm not convinced that the majority of users who use Sync want to use the same page for new tabs on all their devices.
  • by botti56, 2 months ago
    Top Add-on.
    Alas it doesn't work with Beta 153.0.b13 anymore. No matter what is selected in 'Option' or URL it only displays a blank page when I open a new tab.
  • by Firefox user 13667925, 2 months ago
  • by PK, 3 months ago
  • by Nest, 3 months ago
    Should absolutely be a default setting, great extension, but why do you require my history? Edit: oh ok ty

    Developer response

    posted 3 months ago
    Thank you!

    It's described in the add-on's description, as all requested permissions:

    "The permission to access the browser history is needed to prevent spammy "moz-extension://" entries in your browsing history every time you open a new tab. There is no way to prevent this without this permission."
  • by mozjurmo, 3 months ago
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  • by GS123981, 4 months ago
  • by Thomas, 4 months ago
  • by jc00qe, 5 months ago
  • by Virtual Valtyr, 5 months ago
    For some reason Firefox no longer lets use specific the new tab url besides blank or Mozilla's tab page, even changing the new tab url string in about:config doesn't work. I tried a couple other extensions and those didn't work. This is the only one I've found that does. So great job Soren!

    Developer response

    posted 5 months ago
    Thank you!
  • by Micka149, 7 months ago
  • by Firefox user 18421392, 8 months ago
  • by Joerg, 8 months ago
  • by mikkicar, 8 months ago
    Firefox won;t let me set default tab,so this addon helps alot

    Developer response

    posted 8 months ago
    Thank you very much!
  • by eu_la_lio, 8 months ago
    Comfortable, simple and very practical, I'm delighted.

    Developer response

    posted 8 months ago
    Thank you very much!
  • by Ruan Almeida Rocha, 9 months ago
    Good extension.
    Hello, i have a suggestion

    Some users like me press ctrl+T and fastly type the site/search that we want to enter in the new tab (sometimes we just want a new tab to search something, not always the defined new tab one).
    Since i started to use the extension i had to adapt myself to press "ctrl+t" - "ctrl+a" and then type what i want to search. (so the search do not go like www.site.comSEARCH

    Would be good if in the menu options had a check-box to press F6 or CTRL+L after ctrl+t and then backspace automatically.

    For this situation i'm using a AutoHotKey script that does this everytime i press ctrl+t in a browser. But if the program had it pre configured would be good.

    Ruan Almeida,
    Brazil

    Developer response

    posted 8 months ago
    Thank you very much!

    I am not sure if that is possible but I will investigate.
  • by Jonas, 10 months ago
    Great extension. Does exactly what it is supposed to do without loads of unnecessary settings. I hope mozilla fixes the "select url"-issue.

    Developer response

    posted 10 months ago
    Thank you very much!
  • by Firefox user 17624458, a year ago
  • by clara, a year ago
    👍

    Developer response

    posted 10 months ago
    Thank you for your review!
  • by tie, a year ago
  • by Rudolf_Snail, a year ago
    Does exactly what I expect it and want it to do — great extension.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Thank you!
  • by Crinoid, a year ago
    Works very well, recommended!
    (settings bug is now fixed)

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Thank you for the review. I can't see any broken settings link. Can you describe what you mean in more detail?
  • by sexipavel, a year ago