Review: New Tab Homepage

By default when you open a new tab in Firefox, it opens with a blank tab. In IE7 the default behaviour is to load the users home page in the newly opened tab. The about:config entry browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab is suppose to allow you to choose to have either the browser startup page, blank page (default), Home Page or Last Visited Page open in the new tab. However, this does not work with Firefox, only SeaMonkey. For more on this see bug 269664 for details.

The extension New Tab Homepage will load your home page (if you have more than one, then just the first page is loaded) in the new tab. That is all this extension does and if you already using other tab extensions such as Tab Mix (Plus), Tabbrowser Preferences or Tabbrowser, then you don’t need this extension as that functionality is already included in these.

New Tab Homepage is about 8 KB.

3 Comments on Review: New Tab Homepage

  1. Very simple app. Works perfectly.

  2. This can be done easily.
    Just install the ”’FEATURED ”’addon My Homepage

    you can get it here:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/my-homepage

    Hope this helps.
    Thanks!

  3. I find it ridiculous that you have to addon to open a new tab in the homepage. I know that foxfire earlier had it where you could do it!
    Right now I am using the ctrl key and hitting the homepage icon at the top.
    I have enough addon’s on foxfire, and the more the slower it gets! I am ready to dump foxfire!

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