Merlin
Custom New Tab Page

Custom New Tab Page

Specify a custom URL to be shown when opening a new tab, **without changing the address bar content**.

Total ratings for Custom New Tab Page
4.31 (Rating count: 70)
Merlin
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Pros
  • Allows for a custom URL without changing the address bar
  • Option to set new tab page to dark mode or light mode
  • Clears the URL bar when making a new tab
Cons
  • Does not work with file:// URLs
  • Does not support search engines like Google
  • Not able to focus search in the center of the screen
Most mentioned
  • Allows for a custom URL without changing the address bar
  • Does not support search engines like Google
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All time rating average: 4.31
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-04-04 Firefox user 18097713 Best option to have a custom url and not change the address bar, perfect
2024-03-24 dirkules Does exactly what I want, awesome! No URL that's prefilled, I can just start typing and still have my selfhosted dashboard when opening a New Tab 🫰
2024-01-01 Cloud Most other new tab overrides just redirect to the url. But this extension uses an iframe I think. Another plus is when loading the new tab page you can set it to be dark mode or light mode, so no more flashes of white when loading a page that is dark. Give em a star on github too -> https://github.com/MethodGrab/firefox-custom-new-tab-page
2023-12-31 Kis Albert works great, just need to tick those 2 checkboxes in option, could be default.
2023-12-29 Ángel
2023-12-24 Mike B It works as it should and is great. However, I'm so annoyed at Mozilla for making an addon to be necessary!! It's so dumb that they don't let you change the NewTab url like they let you change your new window start page. There is really NO reason for Mozilla NOT to off the ability to do so. Well, I'm betting that it has to do with $$$ honestly. The default new tab page is all about Pocket and most of the default articles it gives you are to paid sites that Pocket (aka Mozilla) make money from.... soooooo, that is the ONLY reason why I can see them not offering. Because lets face it, we open new tabs A LOT more then we do new windows.
2023-11-28 Firefox user 18169319
2023-11-27 PatchMixolydic
2023-11-07 Skparab1
2023-09-13 John After hunting for an extension that allows you to use a custom url as a new tab this is IT! All the other extensions don't clear the url bar when making a new tab. So when you start typing the characters are appended to the url bar contents, meaning you need to manually clear the url bar each time. This one fixes that! I've struggled with it for a month now, and finally found this extension. Thanks MethodGrab!
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