Reviews for New Tab Homepage
New Tab Homepage by Ben Basson
Review by Bart Read
Rated 1 out of 5
by Bart Read, 4 years agoIt works in that it will load my specified homepage on new tabs, which is great, but it has a really annoying address bar bug/behaviour that means I'm going to have to uninstall it.
As expected the address bar on the new tab has input focus. I'd therefore expect the text of the homepage URL to be selected so that, when I start typing a new address or search term, the homepage URL is replaced with whatever I type.
What actually happens is that the caret is placed at the start of the address so that when I type I'm pre-pending text to my homepage URL. I.e., I end up with:
whateverivetypedinhttps://myhomepageurl.com
This is obviously garbage that is interpreted as a search term when I hit return, and leads to garbage results.
The only way to avoid this is to hit CTRL+A to do a select all on the text and then start typing or hit delete *every time I open a new tab*.
As I say, I'm going to uninstall because it does this every time I open a new tab, which is incredibly irritating.
As expected the address bar on the new tab has input focus. I'd therefore expect the text of the homepage URL to be selected so that, when I start typing a new address or search term, the homepage URL is replaced with whatever I type.
What actually happens is that the caret is placed at the start of the address so that when I type I'm pre-pending text to my homepage URL. I.e., I end up with:
whateverivetypedinhttps://myhomepageurl.com
This is obviously garbage that is interpreted as a search term when I hit return, and leads to garbage results.
The only way to avoid this is to hit CTRL+A to do a select all on the text and then start typing or hit delete *every time I open a new tab*.
As I say, I'm going to uninstall because it does this every time I open a new tab, which is incredibly irritating.
212 reviews
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Firefox Can’t Open This Page
To protect your security, www.kadaza.com will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19099892, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ggg, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17635408, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bob M., 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shizune, 7 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by ytrewq, 9 months agothe number of permissions (and amount of private data it harvests from you in the process) is as insane as it is unnecessary for the small amount of work it needs to do under the hood. there are alternatives you can use that require no permissions beyond reading your browser settings
- Rated 1 out of 5by Claude Gauthier, a year agopourquoi c'est si difficile de faire ouvrir une fucking page d'accueil? toujours quelque chose à intaller pas compliqué ouvrir la fucking page qu'on demande d'ouvrir!
- Rated 5 out of 5by TDGalea, a year agoBeen using this plugin since FF did out with the "browser.newtab.url" flag in about:config.
I understand FF did out with that flag because it was an easy target for malware, but I'll never understand why "homepage" isn't an option for the new tab page. This plugin adds such an obvious feature.
Thank you for developing this. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18558983, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kshyhoo, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14623949, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by danuxav, a year agoFor a long time I couldn't put up my own page, so I came across this extension. Thank you very much to the developer.
- Rated 5 out of 5by IvanRozb, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Agent 69 Hansen, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Alex Mirnov, a year agoЗ версії 0.6.3resigned1 перестав працювати на Firefox Developer.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bout's Morgan, a year agoNew Tab Homepage 0.6.2 installed on 2017-Oct-24 on my 3 computers. Thanks Ben for this new release (0.6.3 resigned1).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14643647, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18196157, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Kis Albert, 2 years agoDoesn't select URL on new tab, one too many steps. Also doesnt seem to cache the start page, it loads over net every time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Piotrassin, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zicoxy3, 2 years ago