Today we are going to share an excellent add-on for Mozilla Firefox at the request of our reader "TheAslan". He asked us:
Is it possible to change "+ a.k.a new tab button" to open homepage instead of new tab?
Yes. It's possible. Not by default but by using an add-on.
By default, Mozilla Firefox doesn't allow changing "New Tab" page URL. When you open a new tab, a blank page is opened.
"NewTabURL" is an add-on for Firefox which allows you to change New Tab page URL. You can set it to:
- Blank page
- Homepage
- Current page
- Custom URL
It also allows you to:
- Load URL from clipboard in new tab
- Automatically select URL in addressbar after loading the tab
- Always keep a new tab opened
All above options are really helpful IMO.
You can download it using following link:
I hope this essential feature will be included in future Firefox versions...
Posted by: Vishal Gupta | Categories: Mozilla Firefox
Mark Anthony
it doesn't work for FF5
Mark
YES, NewTabURL v2.2.2 works in FF5
Rohugh
Using the Stratiform 1.2 add-on it is possible to set the home button as a tab "look alike" in the tab bar.
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Edios
Download it from the homepage: sogame.cat/newtaburl/
putrasattvika
good when combined with EIGHT :D
TheAslan
Thanx you so much for this!! It works very well in Firefox 5.0, and i really love how it makes opened tab active after clicked!
Thanx you so much Vishal!
PS: Thanx you so much for mentioning my name in this topic!
TheAslan
Hiya Vishal!
I think that you really should share this great add-on here in AskVg, it's called FireGestures, what it does it brings a Opera like mouse gestures in Firefox, it works with 3.5 -5* versions of Firefox, and i was surprized how well it worked with Firefox, and i think that it worked even better it never worked in Opera, this is such a great add-on and should be listed here in AskVg.
And if you don't want to show close button in tabs and use mouse gestures instead to close tabs, then you can use this:
about:config -> browser.tabs.closebuttons -> change value to 3 -> close buttons are gone and you can use mouse gestures to close tabs and windows, i think that it's more fun to close tabs with mouse gestures than clicking close buttons in tabs, though you can use mouse gestures to close tabs while close button is showing, but when you disable close button in tabs it brings minimal and sleek look in firefox's.
FireGestures is here:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegestures/
Created by Gomita
TheAslan
I forgot to mention one important thing in my last message:
When you disable that close button in tabs first time you have to set the value to 3, then restart browser, then change the value to 2, this ensures that there's not this "x" button in toolbar, if you leave the value to 2 it creates "x" button in toolbar which closes browser window.
But change the value to 2 and it removes that toolbar button.
TheAslan
if you leave the value to 2 it creates "x" button in toolbar which closes browser window.
I meant if you leave the value to 3 not 2, then it creates that button in toolbar....silly me...