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Another nice option could be to show the recently closed tabs as new tab page.

Hi!

Is it possible to remove automatic addition "http://" when using custom URL?
Because in my case I want to open "chrome://desktop/content/desktop.html" and
naturally "http://chrome://desktop/content/desktop.html" don't work.

Thank you.

P.S. Firefox 55.0.2 (64-bit)
Addon 7.1.0 version

Since the new version of Tab Override id doesn't work like expected for some Websites. We use some internal websites which will open pop ups usually but tab override will force them to open a new tab instead. This way these pop ups disconnect to their parent tab and do not work properly anymore.

Please add funtionallity to either choose a kind of blacklist for Tab override or add specific options for pop ups or tabs.

Best

Hi,

When moved to version FF 55.0.2 (64bit os x), New Tab Override changes to the extension version.

This version is not able anymore to handle an URL like this for new tabs, it only works for the very first tab when starting FF on Mac OS:

chrome://desktop/content/desktop.html

This type of URL is used with Desktop addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/desktop/).

In the config dialogue of New Tab Override extension, the URL is wrongly completed with "http://" what ends up like this:

http://chrome://desktop/content/desktop.html

Of course FF tries to handle this URL and finds something like http://www.chrome.com//desktop/content/desktop.html, what is completely wrong (Google 404 page).

Tested on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6.

On my Windows 10 installations with FF 55.0.2 (64bit), all of them version 1607, the chrome: protocol is handled correctly for new tabs.

some users could like to use a full window background image as new tab page.

windows 7 64 bit professional
Firefox 55.0.3 (32-bit)
Newtab: got forced an update for Newtab. Result: no tiles anymore, no gear icon. Unable to
restore to previous version. Unable to use the solutions provided. I want the tiles back.
Any other help than changing from Firefox to an other browser?

Love the extension but this has been happening off and on for a long time. Sometimes after updating Firefox the default focus permanently changes, still other times updating New Tab Override causes it.

I simply would like about:home to open and have the cursor in the search bar, not the URL. Why does focus keep changing version after version? Why is it so hard to keep the focus situated?

Custom URL has the option of where to set focus but If I try and enter about:home under Custom URL it says "This is not a valid URL" and defaults to a blank page.

New Tab Override 7.0.0
Firefox 55.0.1

Edit: Also, [email protected]_website is set to true

add support for localhost urls again

investigate if it makes sense to add a menu item to the tools menu. Minimum requirement: Firefox 56.

A big part of the URL validation was removed in f859d01 to provide a quick solution for localhost URLs. Maybe a better validation can be re-added in the future.

With Firefox 55.0.3, New Tab Override 8.0.0 and Windows 10 version 1703 (PC), I installed New Tab Override and it worked fine. If I close Firefox and restart it, New Tab Override does not work. If I disable and then enable New Tab Override, New Tab Override works. But the next time I start Firefox, New Tab Override does not work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Ever since FF 55 was installed, I have been unable to set focus to search field on http://www.google.com.

I use bookrect as a basic list of my preferred shortcuts and use new tab override to set my new tabs to open to that.

However with the new update it won't allow me to set the new tab URL to "about:bookrect".

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1. Set up new tab override in Firefox nightly to use "about:blank" for new tabs.
2. Open a new tab.
3. Hit the back button.

ACTUAL RESULT: URL bar shows moz-extension://b084e050-67f5-fc42-bf94-7d9e231067d5/html/newtab.html

EXPECTED RESULT: Back button is not even enabled; can't navigate back from the about:blank the new tab opens.

DETAILS: It looks like the addon uses tabs.update() to load about:blank. I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397383 on being able to use that to do a history-replacing load, but it may be worth checking whether location.replace() does the right thing here too...

Hi,

I'm trying to use chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul as the URL.

However, once I load a new tab, it is replaced by

http://**chrome//**browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul

Could this be supported?

Thank you,
Best regards

Not working for some reason can you force it to work?

What Happens
Opening a new tab in the background clears the location bar if the feature is enabled.

Expected Behavior
Location Bar should be cleared only if the new tab is opened in the foreground.

Hello,

it would be great if you could choose the configured home page of firefox preference tab.
In german "Startseite".
Thx.

Regards.

UPDATE: I just learned that Super Start is no longer compatible to firefox. What a pity. So how can I get my old firefox back???? (I know... not safe enough...) At least it still works as start page.

Original issue:

Once again firefox was destroyed by an update. sigh (I know! They have their reasons...)

Some time ago I had to install newtaboverride to get Superstart back on new tabs. Now even this doesn't work. Or at least I don't manage to get it done.

I read this in the comments on newtaboverride: "In order to use Superstart extension, you can go to about:config, look for extensions.superstart.enable.searchengine.select and change the valor to true. This way, you can make work your about:superstart custom url despite the http://."

I set all superstart valors to "true". But as soon as I insert WHATEVER in the field in newtabboverride, firefox would not open ANY new tab. I tried "about:superstart" but even with "about:blank" the same thing happens.

So I get only new tabs that are completely empty or I get no new tab at all. :-((

PLEASE help me! I am a "many tab personality", leave them open all the time!

Greetings
Karin

I attached screenshots.

Using 7.0.0, I wanted to make my new tab page a blank black page. Before, using the pre-webextension version, this worked fine by setting the URL to about:blank and then using a CSS rule in userContent.css to make it black. Now, however, the new tab flashes white for a moment before turning black for me. I thought maybe it was displaying newtab.html from the extension for a moment, but editing that to set the background to black didn't seem to help. I'm not sure where the problem is or if it's something fixable within the extension.

Hi is it possible to have an option to have a new tab to redirect to our home page? this would resolve the problem i am having trying to use the desktop add-on as my new tab page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/desktop/)

When i open a new tab and change then to an another tab.
The tab which i selected load the target page. Just in the first seconds.

Always used it with other extensions, particularly with «Mind the Time» that logs user's time on web. The last one creates its own stat-page using this kind of address:

— resource://jid0-hynmqxa9zqgfjadreri4n2ahksi-at-jetpack/data/index.html

Tried to modify the regexp checking on my own, and now «New Tab Override» consider it valid, but opens its own options when new tab opened. Please, fix it somehow. Thanks.

I am trying to use Tilde as a new tab page. I download the html page, and have it on my local hard drive. I use your extension to find the file, and set it. However every time I open a new tab, the page is blank...

Hey,
Great addon - liking it.
One feature request if I may.

It would be great to select the URL in the address bar when the focus option is enabled so that you can start to type straight away and not have to manual select the URL in the address bar beforehand.

Hopefully that makes sense!

With the version 7.1.0 and Firefox 56.0b2 under OS X I see visit with URL moz-extension://4005c95f-fea9-9648-b5db-b57de571ef4e/html/newtab.html (and no title) added to history.

Probably that URL also briefly blinks in address bar during new tab.

When opening a new tab using custom URL, local file, or background colour, and having focus set the the address bar, the cursor is placed at the beginning of the address instead of selecting all of the text.

This means I now have to press ctrl+a before I can start typing an address. Before WebExtensions opening a new tab would select all the text in the address bar. I don't know if this is a possibility yet with WebExtensions. An alternative would be to just clear the address bar after setting the page, but again I don't know if this is possible yet.

Because 1000 messages are not enough, let's add a 1001. message that local files are no longer supported.

automatically prepend "http://" if the protocol is missing.

In the options not present "Home page", add it please

When opening a new tab, it's nice to be able to write a URL straight away without having to clear the URL already in the address bar. This extension doesn't select the URL, so you have to select or delete it manually. (I'm guessing this is a Firefox restriction, but I don't know for sure)

If a new tab starts with a custom URL and the focus is set on the address bar, the custom URL is not selected. If you then start typing, the new text is added left to the existing URL. That leads to results as example.comhttp://www.custom.url if you forget to delete the custom URL manually.
In older Versions, the custom URL was selected and therfore overwritten by pressing the first letter.
Could you re-add that feature please?

Btw: if about:home is selected, the cursor is always set to the webpage, regardless of the option "set to webpage instead of address bar".

I configured in the settings to use a custom URL and as URL typed in about:mozilla.
This worked fine for Firefox 54.0.1 and the New Tab Override plugin version for it. After the update to Firefox 55.0.2 and the update of the New Tab Override plugin the about:mozilla is automatically rewritten to http://about:mozilla and if I open a new tab, I get a blank page and the URL moz-extension://6b642d45-7b21-4e22-87ee-fe6739652005/html/newtab.html in the address bar, but not the about:mozilla page.

I use extention superstart (https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/super-start/) and it has address on new tab about:superstart. It has worked until today when newtaboverride got an update. So now when i set URL to newtabovveride about:superstart it converts it to http://about:superstart and superstart doesn't work - I see moz-extension://e5bf13e4-4edc-4321-b45a-fa550c389156/html/newtab.html instead of about:superstart

implement option to use a empty page with custom background color as new tab page

having issues trying to get it working.
The file is just a single html startpage ( https://github.com/cadejscroggins/tilde/blob/master/index.html )
Works fine when opened normally, but breaks when opened from the extension storage.

edit: damn, should have checked the closed issues, it was already mentioned there

Since my nightly updated i cant use my own index.html as an New Tab Page. That was the sole purpose for the Extension for me. :/

I have set the newtab page to about:blank. However, when opening a new tab, a moz-extension: url (similar to the one of the preferences) is visible for about half a second and the page loading animation is playing on the new tab. This is very annoying, especially, if you start typing in a url before the new tab has finished loading, as the address bar resets once the "loading" of the new tab is finished.
I am using the VimFX addon, so I can press t to open a new tab and immediately start typing an address. Previously this worked very well, but with this intermediate url, that the webextension version of newtaboverride is calling, my workflow is broken, i.e. I need to wait for like half a second between pressing t and typing an address.

Hi,

I open a new thread because those related to the topic are closed and I think this can help. In order to use Superstart extension, you can go to about:config, look for extensions.superstart.enable.searchengine.select and change the valor to true. This way, you can make work your about:superstart custom url despite the http://. It works for me. I guess this applies to other extensions.

Regards.

For WebExtensions it's not possible to use the file:// protocol for local file access, therefore local files cannot be used as new tab page via custom url option. New Tab Override 8.0 will add support for uploading a local html file to the add-on's storage und use this as new tab page.

If I will use not a www-site like "about:viewmarks" (start an other addon) the tool add automatic "http://" and try to open "http://about:viewmarks".

Using 7.0.0, the extension won't accept a data URL as valid input. For example data:text/html,<html style="background: black"></html> works as expected if I put it in the browser address bar.

I have this listed in my extensions/add-ons, as the replacement for Custom New Tab. But suddenly, a Yahoo screen shows up and I have not configured that anywhere. The New Tab override is set to open https://www.wusf.usf.edu.

So what's up with that? Where can it be configured properly?

Custom URL option not support "localhost" (witch i really need) and IP adress (it's not necessary):

For example:
"localhost/my_page"
"http://localhost/my_page"
"127.0.0.1/my_page"
etc.

"Access to local files via URL is no longer possible due to Firefox restrictions" is not at all true. I have firefox 55.0.3 (64 bit) and curiously with an older version of the addon it overrode the new tab to a custom local url of my choosing, until the addon suddenly updated and now "restrictions" prevent it. Reverting to an older version of the addon (6.0.1, in my case) fixed the issue. the addon overrides new tabs with local URL's with ease. If you're like my and have a custom home page you made, use an older version of the addon and it will work. Worked for me, anyway. Thanks.

In the lastest version local HTML files such as " /Users/me/Documents/index.html " are not valid anymore.

when I open a tab i get this.
http://search.searchutilities.co/?uid=47923169-95aa-42d2-bcae-6f3c32189af5&uc=20170815&ap=appfocus183&source=en-dbpage-bb8&page=newtab&implementation_id=brandedtab_4.0.13

I have it set for firefox home page. about:home

aus z. B. about:superstart wird http://about:superstart – eine Seite die offensichtlich nicht existiert

Hi<
I've just installed the New Tab Override extension but am not able to get focus on my webpage instead it stays on the adress bar