Reviews for Blank New Tab
Blank New Tab by xofe
29 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by flo, 2 years agoIt 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!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16734585, 3 years agoЭто работает и это то, что я искал.
It works and is what I was looking for.
xofe, thank you! - Rated 5 out of 5by Dizzy, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel_Laixer, 3 years agoTHANK 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 :) - Rated 5 out of 5by sushi, 4 years agoNew 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Ander, 5 years agoBlank 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. :?)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sageru, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Laurence Daigle, 6 years agoLove the fact that the search bar is immediately focused
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14156277, 7 years agoI 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13944698, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by default-username, 7 years agoI 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by sergeykish, 7 years agoThank 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13727369, 7 years agoIt does what it says and it requires no spurious permissions. Thanks.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13718684, 7 years agoHi 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'?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6648216, 7 years agoWorks 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13378804, 7 years agoThanks! i Finally Fixed it https://youtu.be/ixoyvUhD0ws
- Rated 5 out of 5by jlvanderzwan, 7 years agoIt 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.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for reviewing!
Due to the way this add-on works (it redirects to the built-in 'about:blank' page), it's not possible to set the colour directly. A separate add-on that used its own blank page (instead of 'about:blank') with a smidgen of CSS to change the background would be fairly easy to create - perhaps someone will give it a shot? - Rated 5 out of 5by growdigital, 7 years agoHooray! It displays a blank new tab. Which is exactly what I wanted
- Rated 5 out of 5by Marco, 7 years ago