I noticed my PC was sending DNS requests all day long for for sites that would be in my very very old bookmarks. Upon further investigation, I saw it was actually opening connections and sending HTTP requests to all those servers via QUIC. Constantly contacting these websites I haven't touched in years even while I'm away at work. Stopped this unsettling traffic by disabling HNTP

I use this extension for many many years, on Chromium based browsers it works a little bit better, for example the icons are seamless there, why in the Firefox based browsers the icons can't be from the bookmarks themselves?

Missing icons for random bookmarks on Firefox (inside the new page view, not Firefox bookmark folder itself). No issue on Brave.

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simple and convenient add-on

A nice extension. I use it in Chrome and Firefox. But in Firefox there are sites that never appear in the Most Visited list (being indeed frequently visited). In Chrome it works perfectly.

Awesome extension - makes the New Tab page SO much more useful! And the developer is super responsive via email if you run into trouble (or if, like me, you forget there's a whole "settings" menu).

Humble New Tab Page is pretty neat.

It might not seem like much, but this is something I interact with virtually every time I'm using my internet browser, and for my tastes, a nice customized display of my bookmarks is really all I ever want when I open a new tab, other than a search bar- and the browsers address bar takes care of that.

It hasn't exactly added any new features, or had any major changes in years- but that's fine. This extension is fine to be in a maintenance mode, of sorts, development wise, because it kind of does everything I could possibly want it do for the most part.

The only non-positive thought I have is that it's not super touch-screen friendly? I guess custom CSS might be able to do some work there maybe.

So, in short, I love it! I've been using it for years, even before I switched from Chrome back to FireFox in 2019.

The only thing is that it requires you to spend a little time with it's settings menu to put together something you like, and if you can't be bothered with a little configuration, it might be best to just stick to the vanilla New Tab page.

Chrome version is great, but the Firefox version download Favicons from an online source, so any local sites will not get an icon. In the Chrome version it pulls the favicons from Chrome's cache. Shame, it looked so good in Chrome, but a bit naff in Firefox.