Omtaler for New Tab Override
New Tab Override av Sören Hentzschel
Omtale av Firefox-bruker 6696096
Vurdert til 4 ut av 5
av Firefox-bruker 6696096, 8 år sidenThe Addon does the job, but the workflow with the address bar is far from perfect.
When you use "custom url" the addon makes the address bar unusable for the time it takes the browser to completely load the page defined in "custom url".
Let's say my "custom url" is "A".
I open the new tab and start typing the address "B" in the address bar (different from custom url).
1) If the page "A" loads before I finish typing url "B" all my typing was useless, because the addon overwrites my typed url "B" with "A". Or concatenates B+A (more often). I have to start over.
2) If I finish typing url "B" quicker then the addon loads the page "A" (custom url) and press Enter, in most cases the browser ignores my actions. And again, the addon overwrites my typed url "B" with "A". Or concatenates B+A (more often). And again I have to start over.
The only way to cope with this task is to hit ESC key right after Ctrl+T combination, to prevent Firefox from loading the page in the new tab.
As some people said before, it would be better, if the addon would leave the clean address bar and wouldn't mess with user typing. Manual URL entering should have priority over "custom url" loading.
If I want the defined "custom url" to load I would wait for the tab to load. But if I type the URL myself, don't reset the address bar, don't overwrite my entered text.
It's just getting on my nerves. But unfortunately my favorite bookmark-site doesn't have the Firefox addon, so I have to use some middleman-addon like New Tab Override. And the process reminds me of the windows 98 setup, where if to paraphrase they would say "sit back and relax while Firefox+NewTabOverride load the page. Then and only then you will be able to use the address bar to go to some other page"
________________
if you have your CPU heavy loaded with some background task you can see the whole workflow:
Let's say I want to use some "search shortcut" ( "y" for YouTube)
1) I open new tab,
2) quickly type "y trailers" and hit ENTER (to go to YouTube and look for movie trailers)
3) Firefox starts to load YouTube search page
4) "New Tab Override" stops the process and loads the "custom url" instead
When you use "custom url" the addon makes the address bar unusable for the time it takes the browser to completely load the page defined in "custom url".
Let's say my "custom url" is "A".
I open the new tab and start typing the address "B" in the address bar (different from custom url).
1) If the page "A" loads before I finish typing url "B" all my typing was useless, because the addon overwrites my typed url "B" with "A". Or concatenates B+A (more often). I have to start over.
2) If I finish typing url "B" quicker then the addon loads the page "A" (custom url) and press Enter, in most cases the browser ignores my actions. And again, the addon overwrites my typed url "B" with "A". Or concatenates B+A (more often). And again I have to start over.
The only way to cope with this task is to hit ESC key right after Ctrl+T combination, to prevent Firefox from loading the page in the new tab.
As some people said before, it would be better, if the addon would leave the clean address bar and wouldn't mess with user typing. Manual URL entering should have priority over "custom url" loading.
If I want the defined "custom url" to load I would wait for the tab to load. But if I type the URL myself, don't reset the address bar, don't overwrite my entered text.
It's just getting on my nerves. But unfortunately my favorite bookmark-site doesn't have the Firefox addon, so I have to use some middleman-addon like New Tab Override. And the process reminds me of the windows 98 setup, where if to paraphrase they would say "sit back and relax while Firefox+NewTabOverride load the page. Then and only then you will be able to use the address bar to go to some other page"
________________
if you have your CPU heavy loaded with some background task you can see the whole workflow:
Let's say I want to use some "search shortcut" ( "y" for YouTube)
1) I open new tab,
2) quickly type "y trailers" and hit ENTER (to go to YouTube and look for movie trailers)
3) Firefox starts to load YouTube search page
4) "New Tab Override" stops the process and loads the "custom url" instead
1 013 omtaler
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Jonas, 22 dager sidenGreat extension. Does exactly what it is supposed to do without loads of unnecessary settings. I hope mozilla fixes the "select url"-issue.
- Vurdert til 1 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 19529180, 2 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 17624458, 2 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av tie, 2 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av ThePolishJoker, 2 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 3 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 18538818, 2 måneder sidenIt worked for about 10 mins (with google.com as new page) and then is stopped, leaving me back in the FF default home page. Maybe they'll fix it, idk.
Edit: Didn't change anything on the system. I fiddled with it for quite some time after. Also asked ChatGPT, ruled out AdBlockers, still could not work it out. Sorry but this shouldn't take more then a few minutes to set up. May FF is blocking it in some way.Utviklerrespons
postet 2 måneder sidenI don't understand this poor rating. If the extension worked at first, then it can't be the extension's fault if it no longer works. You must have changed something on your system. The extension doesn't stop working on its own. - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Rudolf_Snail, 2 måneder sidenDoes exactly what I expect it and want it to do — great extension.
- Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 18891860, 3 måneder sidenGenerally works very well, but the settings link on the tools dropdown list doesn't work
edit :
go to the menu bar, click Tools
at the bottom of the list is "New Tab - Settings"
when I click on it, nothing happensUtviklerrespons
postet 2 måneder sidenThank you for the review. I can't see any broken settings link. Can you describe what you mean in more detail? - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av sexipavel, 3 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av apandya, 3 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Anonymous, 3 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av Chizzy, 3 måneder sidenClose to perfect. I just wish it would highlight the address in the URL bar when making a new tab (google). I just want to start typing in the URL bar and currently it types before the current URL and doesn't replace it. I have to manually highlight the URL then start typing. Switching it to focus on the website is ok but it doesn't work with google to type a web address, it always just searches for it on google.
Utviklerrespons
postet 2 måneder sidenThank you for the review. Unfortunately, this is not technically possible for an extension. - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Cillu, 5 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av InSinCere79, 5 måneder sidenUnlike the "Custom New Tab Page" extension that hasn't been updated in 5 years. This extension actually does what it says. Was able to set google to new tab with this extension.
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Kodak ghost, 6 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 19070712, 6 måneder siden正當我苦惱FF怎麼不能自由設定NEW TAB時，我想起了FF有許多好用的外掛可以使用
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Dio, 6 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Harin Khakhi, 7 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av ggg, 7 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Matt, 7 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av woam, 8 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 1 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 18908012, 8 måneder siden
- Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av joefiesta, 8 måneder sidenIt 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. - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 18382956, 8 måneder sidengive me the feature i miss in vanilla firefox
Utviklerrespons
postet 8 måneder sidenThanks 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.