Reviews for New Tab Override
New Tab Override by Sören Hentzschel
Review by Dave-H
Rated 3 out of 5
by Dave-H, 7 years agoSorry for the earlier mess-up, I wasn't familiar with how this review system works. I assumed that if a developer responded to a review, you could then respond to that response, but it appears not!
I just want to confirm that New Tab Override, if it's configured to open "about:blank" as a new tab, should produce the same result when clicking the "+" button on the tab bar as entering "about:blank" in the address bar and pressing "enter" does.
At the moment it doesn't seem to produce the same result. Is this by design? Thanks, Dave.
EDIT: Thanks Sören, that certainly explains the change of behaviour. It's unfortunate that my extension to automatically close empty pages does not now treat the empty pages generated by New Tab Override as it did before, but that's obviously not your fault! I've tried the about:config change, but unfortunately that seems to result in a new tab being the home page, not an empty blank tab, so it's not ideal either, but again not your problem! Many thanks again, cheers, Dave.
I just want to confirm that New Tab Override, if it's configured to open "about:blank" as a new tab, should produce the same result when clicking the "+" button on the tab bar as entering "about:blank" in the address bar and pressing "enter" does.
At the moment it doesn't seem to produce the same result. Is this by design? Thanks, Dave.
EDIT: Thanks Sören, that certainly explains the change of behaviour. It's unfortunate that my extension to automatically close empty pages does not now treat the empty pages generated by New Tab Override as it did before, but that's obviously not your fault! I've tried the about:config change, but unfortunately that seems to result in a new tab being the home page, not an empty blank tab, so it's not ideal either, but again not your problem! Many thanks again, cheers, Dave.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThere was a change in Firefox 60 with the result that about:blank is no longer usable as new tab page for WebExtensions. I don't know if this was a intended change or a side effect of another change, a bug. But the only thing I was able to do was to implement a workaround so that a empty new tab still works - even if there are differences to about:blank in the tab / address bar.
But if you really want an empty new tab you can change browser.newtabpage.enabled in about:config to false and you don't need an add-on at all.
But if you really want an empty new tab you can change browser.newtabpage.enabled in about:config to false and you don't need an add-on at all.
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- Rated 4 out of 5by joefiesta, 25 days agoIt was working fine. But, no longer. I have chosen custom URL (https ://www google com /advanced_search). It doesn't go there upon opening new tab.
It may have been updating firefox to 136.0.4. (spaces added to URL - review does not allow otherwise)
EDIT: Okay, now I got it work. I had to uninstall it and re-install. Something Firefox did somewhere broke it, but I can't say what. I certainly never touched it. Developer response
posted a month agoThanks for the review.
It was a feature in „vanilla Firefox“ in the past, but it was abused by bad players and therefore Mozilla was forced to remove the option. But at the same time they gave extension developers the ability. So we have to be thankful to Mozilla.- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17434746, a month agoThe Bets! But, I can't donate through paypal cus they charge a fee! Suggest Venmo or other donation platform because PayPal is also run by APartheid NaXis!
- Rated 5 out of 5by 光轮, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bob M., 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by UdaBudda, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vijay Samant, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18830905, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jesús DGz, 2 months agoJust new url for new tab, easy, perfect working with just the right permissions. Thanks for your work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18813451, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Paul Lee, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18710082, 3 months agoFinally... Why is Mozilla insisting on NOT allowing this setting by default is beyond my understanding. Many thanks to the developer :o)
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThank you for the review!
It was possible several years ago, but Mozilla had to take this option from Firefox because hijacking was a real problem at that time. But we should be thankful, because Mozilla provided a WebExtension API on the first time when they removed this option. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18771567, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13212439, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bullfinch, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yodaminium, 5 months agoI have used this for the last 5?10yrs.? I forget how long I've been suing this neat little extension. I can always count on it to work! I am going to donate.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jacksaur, 5 months agoWorks perfectly. The option to change auto-focus from the address bar to the webpage is an awesome feature too, makes it much easier to use the search bar in Glance as a new tab page!
- Rated 5 out of 5by 希灵小兵, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13449591, 6 months 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?
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHallo,
Danke für die positive Bewertung! Ich habe die Erweiterung auf startpage.com getestet und bei mir funktioniert die Fokus-Option wie erwartet. Vielleicht hat sich das Problem in der Zwischenzeit durch eine Website-Änderung erledigt. - Rated 5 out of 5by sctech, 7 months ago