It can still be useful to have this add-on using Firefox 61+. Recent versions of Firefox have the about:newtab page as new tab. With this add-on it is replaced by about:blank. This allows me to work with mouse gestures on new tabs (using Gesturefy add-on). Thanks!

THANK YOU! I'm on FF56 and I was trying to change the new tab color with "browser.display.background_color", but the new tab wasn't about:blank.

Thanks to this add-on it is now :)

New tab for private browsing will display a dedicated screen.
I use private browsing so much that I wanted to turn it into a simple page.
I need this extension.
Pardon my broken English.

Works well. The only downside is I have to wait a second when I open a new tab before I start typing a URL. This attacks me constantly.

Edit: Thanks bruh!

Blank New Tab. Yeah, baby! It's pretty simple. Something like this either works or it doesn't—and this does. FF's "personalized" new tab screen is well-meaning, but it seems creepy always being reminded which sites you visit most, like someone's watching over your shoulder. I much prefer to create keyword shortcuts to jump to my favourite sites (e.g. "yt" for YouTube), and doing that is easy in FF. Install this, then you can have a blank new tab every time you run. Open a new tab, it's blank too. Beauty. If only the rest of life were so easy. :?)

Love the fact that the search bar is immediately focused

I do not like my history appearing in the new tab, since my Firefox is sometimes shared with the other in the work. I already install another adds on, it worked but it also disturbed Firefox and address bar irritatingly while this extension works very well and never bothers me and it is hidden in Firefox.

Just. Works.

Good addon but unfortunately ff61(.0.1) introduced a small issue:
open new tab, enter some url, press backbutton
expected: blank page
actual: some url is still shown, seems to be gfx buffer or something, cant click anything and switching to other tab and back does clear the contents

edit after reply: framebuffer issues like these could be anything really i guess and may be specific to my system :) i had not noticed the new blank page feature so that saves us both the hassle i guess, thanks for the reply!

ps. it was about the site-content-area, not the url-bar, i should have been more clear i see now

I quit on a blank tab so the next launch will not load any tabs into RAM (until I click on them). Deleting the built-in Activity Stream add-on from the .../browser/features folder makes the New Tab page blank, but those blank tabs are not restored when restarting Firefox. This bloat-free extension allows me to empty the "features" folder and start on a blank tab. (Update: with this add-on, the blank tabs are restored the majority of the time, not 100%.)

New tabs open with the cursor in a blank address bar for me. Firefox 60, macOS

Great add-on! A small annoyance: in Firefox Quantum the new tab does not select the URL field. So to type a new URL you need to hit CMD-L first. Otherwise perfect!

Thank you!

Works perfectly if not noisy flicker in address bar, fixed by removal and only afterward found you've ponted on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-about-blank/ in the comment.

It's funny that "Blank New Tab" displays "about:blank" and "New Tab about:blank" displays blank tab

Looks like it works.

Mostly works. With ff v58 it flashes a moz:// extension URL (too quick to be more precise) in the URL bar before switching to about:newtab. Also, for whatever reason, it doesn't override the standard new tab page when opening a new window. Hopefully these are things that can be fixed! :)

Edit: my mistake; opening a new window shows about:home, which by default is set to the 'Mozilla Firefox Start Page', which is seemingly about:newtab. But about:newtab appears to be the standard new tab page, not the one overridden by this extension. That doesn't feel right, but it's Firefox's behaviour, not that of this extension's author. Changing the Home Page in prefs to about:blank fixes the problem for new windows.

Edit2: by weird coincidence, I wrote the Edit above while you were responding to my first review!!! So I ended up repeating what you said anyway!! :)
It's a shame about the flash; it actually makes the extension too annoying to use. The real answer to such a trivial feature is for Firefox to let users set their own 'new tab' page in their prefs, in the same way as setting the home page. Hopefully, that basic ability will be added sometime! Best of luck! :)

It does what it says and it requires no spurious permissions. Thanks.

Hi johan, I did what you said. When I double-click the .html file, it opens a dark background page. However, how do I set it so that it opens this file when I press 'new tab'?

Works as advertised!
Enough for me.

But as someone asked:
For a "night version", just create a text document with this:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><style>body{background-color:#222222}</style></head><body></body></html>
Name it bg-blk.html (for example, anyhing ending with .html)
Double-klick for a dark opening. :)
222222 is dark, 000000 is pitch black &c.
Also set "Open new windows in new tab instead", obviously.

Thanks! i Finally Fixed it https://youtu.be/ixoyvUhD0ws

works like it says!!

Fantastic. Works as advertised

It just works just as advertised :) The only thing that could make it better is if I could set the color (a big white screen is blinding at night, I'd like to make it black)

EDIT: Maybe a separate "dark new tab" add-on would make more sense, since those are the two main use-cases and it will keep the code nice and minimal like it is now.