Reviews for New Tab Override
New Tab Override by Sören Hentzschel
Review by Firefox user 15832016
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 15832016, 6 years ago1,028 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Max, 8 hours agoAt first it was a really good add-on for firefox based browsers. If you watch youtube regularly while this extension is enabled, I found that youtube takes for ever to load or not load at all. Once disabled I was able to load and watch youtube much smoother like normal. I have also noticed some other glitches on other sites with it enabled. I've had tabs crashing at times when I richt-click the mouse then tab crash or just gone leaving one open for me.
Developer response
posted 7 hours agoThis makes neither sense nor can I confirm the YouTube issue. There is no relation at all between having this extension enabled and using YouTube. Also „some other glitches on other sites" makes no sense at all because this extension doesn't execute any code on websites. So it's just not possible. I also don't believe you the "crashing" part as the extension just uses WebExtension APIs and if it were true, a lot of extension would cause crashes. Another fact: There are more than 60,000 active users of the extension and there is not a single report for any of these issues. - Rated 5 out of 5by botti56, 15 days agoTop Add-on.
Alas it doesn't work with Beta 153.0.b13 anymore. No matter what is selected in 'Option' or URL it only displays a blank page when I open a new tab. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13667925, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by PK, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nest, 2 months agoShould absolutely be a default setting, great extension, but why do you require my history? Edit: oh ok ty
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThank you!
It's described in the add-on's description, as all requested permissions:
"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." - Rated 5 out of 5by mozjurmo, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ClauS, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by GS123981, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Thomas, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by tippex.95, 3 months agoVery good extention, but to b 5 stars, it should have a specific feature for custom URL new pages: the ability to clear the URL bar when the page is loaded and the focus is on the bar, so one could just CTRL+T and start typing to search.
Now you've the focus on the URL bar, but there is the text of the custom URL too, so if you're in a rush, you could search for "[your search]+[custom URL]" on the search engine.Developer response
posted 3 months agoThank you for the review!
> but to b 5 stars, it should have a specific feature for custom URL new pages: the ability to clear the URL bar when the page is loaded
For obvious security reasons, this is not possible for Firefox extensions. - Rated 5 out of 5by jc00qe, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Virtual Valtyr, 4 months agoFor some reason Firefox no longer lets use specific the new tab url besides blank or Mozilla's tab page, even changing the new tab url string in about:config doesn't work. I tried a couple other extensions and those didn't work. This is the only one I've found that does. So great job Soren!
Developer response
posted 5 months agoThe add-on just opens tabs. If this is "sluggish", then it's "sluggish" without the add-on as well … I really don't understand the reason for this bad review …- Rated 5 out of 5by Micka149, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18421392, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joerg, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mikkicar, 7 months agoFirefox won;t let me set default tab,so this addon helps alot
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ruan Almeida Rocha, 8 months agoGood extension.
Hello, i have a suggestion
Some users like me press ctrl+T and fastly type the site/search that we want to enter in the new tab (sometimes we just want a new tab to search something, not always the defined new tab one).
Since i started to use the extension i had to adapt myself to press "ctrl+t" - "ctrl+a" and then type what i want to search. (so the search do not go like www.site.comSEARCH
Would be good if in the menu options had a check-box to press F6 or CTRL+L after ctrl+t and then backspace automatically.
For this situation i'm using a AutoHotKey script that does this everytime i press ctrl+t in a browser. But if the program had it pre configured would be good.
Ruan Almeida,
BrazilDeveloper response
posted 7 months agoThank you very much!
I am not sure if that is possible but I will investigate. - Rated 5 out of 5by Jonas, 9 months agoGreat extension. Does exactly what it is supposed to do without loads of unnecessary settings. I hope mozilla fixes the "select url"-issue.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19529180, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17624458, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tie, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ThePolishJoker, 10 months ago