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In Firefox Developer Edition, how can I set new tabs to open my custom home page?
I'm using Firefox Developer Edition 41.0a2 on Windows 8.1. Part of the latest update from a few days ago changed my New Tab page to the fancy one with Tiles.
That's nice, but I want to use my custom .html page that I had set before.
On the fancy New Tab page, I can only set it to show (through the gear menu): - My Top Sites (the new page, I don't want this at this time) - Blank (also not what I want).
On the Options > General page, I have set my home page to a file on my disk drive: Home Page: file:///C:/work/new-tab-page.html
Previously, when I clicked the New Tab button (or pressed Ctrl+T), that page would open up (it has some Javascript content to help my workflow). Now, it open the new fancy page and I can't get the previous behaviour.
I found an article that suggested setting the property "browser.newtab.url" to the url of my file. But it IS currently set to that value in about:config :
browser.newtab.url | user-set | string | file:///C:/work/new-tab-page.html
I should mention that if I click the Home button, it DOES take me to my file.
The behavior I want is to go to that file when clicking on the New Tab button (the "plus" icon, or pressing Ctrl+T).
(by the way: I know I can middle-click the Home button to achieve almost the same thing, but I would much rather have that behavior on the Ctrl+T shortcut).
Thank you!
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hi stnever, support for the browser.newtab.url preference was removed in this version - please use https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/ in order to set a custom new tab page instead.
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hi stnever, support for the browser.newtab.url preference was removed in this version - please use https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/ in order to set a custom new tab page instead.
Thank you Philipp, this addon works for me. The addon led me to the bug entry for this change ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118285 ).
I can understand the controversy behind it, but I'm glad my problem was solved.
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It should be noted that just installing the addon doesnt finish the job, you have to go into it from the addons you've added to firefox and put the url for the tab in the section where it says about:newtab on the addon.