Firefox: Have New Tabs Open to Home (or any other) Page
Posted by David Kirk in Mozilla Firefox
When I open a new tab, 9 out of 10 times I want it to open to google. Firefox will not open a page by default when you open a tab. Here is how to change that.
I click a new tab in firefox. There opens a blank, untitled page. Quick, but YAWN!
By using tab mix plus extension for firefox, you can change this.
1. Download and install the extension
2. Click Tools
3. Select Tab Mix Plus Options
4. Click Events
5. Click Tab Opening tab
6. In the Load on New Tabs dropdown box select Home
If you want to open to another page other than your home page, select User Location and enter whatever page you wish.
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May 24, 2009 at 12:01 am, joel said:
did not work
July 02, 2009 at 7:02 am, aprima said:
Is there a working add-on for version 3.5?
September 20, 2009 at 10:24 pm, Anonymous said:
very helpful thanx
November 23, 2009 at 3:19 pm, Anonymous said:
Worked like a charm — can’t believe I lived this long without it!
March 07, 2010 at 8:06 pm, Pip said:
Thank you thank you this worked perfectly. I have now set mine so that Google comes up with each new tab. Thanks so much for the help.
March 25, 2010 at 3:35 am, Mark said:
Its absolutely hideous you have to run a #%W#%in add on for this crap. Tab browsing 101. Wish there was another choice for browsing. Firefox is a utter pig however it is stable if you run few addons. I have 2 installed and hate the thought of having to run one for something this basic. HOW *#%&)(Q#%*(Q*#%)(Q#*%)(%)(*%)(*()Q%*()%umb
October 09, 2010 at 9:13 pm, Mannie Romero said:
if all you want is the new tab to open as your homepage. then click the home icon with the middle mouse button :-0
December 08, 2010 at 7:31 pm, Pete_027 said:
^
+1
June 03, 2011 at 5:07 pm, Trigger said:
Fantastic. Cheers
July 14, 2011 at 3:39 pm, Ganeshchuabar said:
By using tab mix plus extension for firefox, you can change this.
1. Download and install the extension
2. Click Tools
3. Select Tab Mix Plus Options
4. Click Events
5. Click new tab
6. In the Load on New Tabs dropdown box select Home
October 29, 2012 at 11:52 am, Adapt It Group said:
I think the tab mix plus extension for Firefox is the very interactive thing. I will install it for sure.
January 14, 2013 at 1:51 am, Robert said:
Why use an add-on when Firefox already has this ability built in?
In the address bar type: about:config
Now search for the string: browser.newtab.url
By default it will say: about:newtab
Double click on it, and change it to whatever website you want new tabs to open up to, like http://www.google.com for example.
On the off chance you don’t have the ‘browser.newtab.url’ string under about:config, just create it.
So much easier and faster and no add-ons required.