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Reviews for New Tab Home

New Tab Home by Roly

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11 reviews
  • by Firefox user 14722597, 3 months ago
  • by Patrizio Bekerle, 6 months ago
    Does exactly what it should, including a way to focus the website instead the address bar! Thank you very much!
  • by Firefox user 15890019, a year ago
    Works! Does what it says on the box, without all the permissions similar add-ons require!
  • by Firefox user 17717852, 2 years ago
  • by caltrop, 2 years ago
    FireFox says my home page is privileged and can't be used, it is a local HTML, oh well... best you can do is a BLANK page, Fox is F'd
  • by fantasai, 3 years ago
    Very simple extension that does exactly what it says. Super appreciate that it does not require any unnecessary permissions. Thank you, Ylor, for coding this up!!
  • by Andre, 3 years ago
    This extension works perfectly as described and it requires the permissions only to work. It's Great.
  • by Firefox user 15167956, 3 years ago
    Macht was es soll. Unauffällig und im Hintergrund
  • by Zac, 3 years ago
  • by Mike, 3 years ago
    Does what I need and asks for far fewer permissions than other extensions that do the same thing
  • by HuckleSmothered, 4 years ago
    Fails to load. My homepage is a local file. Which works fine as the homepage, but doesn't load for new tabs with this add-on.

    Also, why is access to browsing history accessed? It is not needed for this app. None of these permissions are needed. Other add-ons work without any of these.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    To my knowledge Firefox does not support "file://" scheme for homepages (without venturing into about:config or other hacks). As a result this extension was not developed with support for them in mind. The extension New Tab Override does have some support for local file homepages. It is an excellent extension that may have the functionality you are looking for and I highly recommend it.

    Regarding the history permission please see the explanation from similar addon New Tab Override : 'the permission to access the browser history is needed to prevent spammy "moz-extension://" entries in your browsing history every time you open a new tab. There is no way to prevent this without this permission.'

    Edit: 1/9/21
    I found that with at least Firefox 85 (and possibly earlier) there appears to no longer be the issue with browser history being flooded with "moz-extension://" entries and am happy to remove Browser History permission. Additionally I added some more feedback when using a homepage that is not http:// or https://.