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New Tab Override by Sören Hentzschel

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  • by Adie, 8 years ago
    Great addon, although setting focus / highlighting the address URL would have been ideal for my requirements. Using this plugin in conjuction with 'New Tab Homepage' seems to resolve the issue. Just remember to install or activate 'New Tab Homepage' AFTER this plugin, as the reverse won't work.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Thank you for your feedback.

    "New Tab Homepage" is no WebExtension. So you could also use New Tab Override 6, it's also no WebExtension and has the mentioned feature. Then you don't need a second add-on. ;)

    The WebExtension version of New Tab Override will get this feature as soon as it will be possible for WebExtensions. It will be possible in the future, probably with Firefox 57.
  • by batel, 8 years ago
    I use SpeedDial as my homepage and up to the latest revision it worked fine. Now my homepage (chrome://speeddial/content/speeddial.xul) no longer comes up in a new tab. I see from reading that this is no longer possible to make work. Hopefully there will be a work around soon. I've always used Firefox mainly due to the great add-ons available but it seems Mozilla is making it very hard on the developers. Nearly all of my add-on's show "legacy" with I suppose means they'll stop working in November.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Thank you for your feedback.

    There are no chrome:// URIs for add-ons in Firefox 57 and higher. So Speed Dial has to update the add-on and should include an option to use it as new tab page since WebExtension also can't open URIs of another WebExtensions as far as I know…
  • by RobertVisser, 8 years ago
    Thanks for your work on this.

    In Firefox Preferences my Home Page is set to chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul . This opens my Bookmarks when Firefox starts.

    Before your most recent revision on August 12, I could also specify chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul in the Custom URL dialogue in New Tab Override. Please restore that option (assuming Mozilla enables that option in a future WebExtensions API) or alternatively enable an option to choose the Home Page specified in Firefox Preferences.

    Incidentally, in about:config [email protected] still specifies chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul , it's just no longer loading when I click on the "+" to open a new tab.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Thank you for your feedback.

    New Tab Override 7.0 (and higher) is a WebExtension, the only allowed add-on architecture on Firefox 57 and higher (Firefox Nightly is already on version 57). WebExtensions are only allowed to use http://, https:// and a very small subset of about: pages to use as new tab page. So there is nothing what I can do for your use case. It's not possible to restore this feature.

    It's also not possible to read the homepage at the moment. It will be possible again in the future, but it's not possible in Firefox 55 and Firefox 56, it will be possible in Firefox 57 at the earliest.
  • by Firefox user 13067908, 8 years ago
    I love this addon, and you will always have my support. Thank you for updating it to the new version of FF.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Thank you! :)
  • by Latreso, 8 years ago
    Addon now not supported localhost URL!
    (thanks for very fast feedback, now waiting for update ;) )

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    And where is your report on the bugtracker? It's really bad style to give one star reviews without asking the developer to check a possible bug or to implement a feature.

    I'll add this feature again in the next update…