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BLAlley
Making moves
Status: New idea

I'd like to be able to set any page I want to open with a new tab instead of being forced to open to the Firefox page.

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Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

Agentvirtuel
Contributor

Hello

If you'd like to test Tab Mix Plus
https://github.com/onemen/TabMixPlus

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https://onemen.github.io/tabmixplus-docs/help/events-new-tabs

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@Stokestack wrote:
when you type into the search bar on that page, focus jarringly jumps up to a massive dialog that jumps out of the URL box at the top of the screen

Configuration Editor for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox
Search browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar
Try the value false

pnr2020
New member

set homepage to anything

This browser needs an option to change homepage. I don't understand how it hasn't it's 2024.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

LeandroHMO
New member

Why don't we have the option to set the new tab to open the same URL as the home page?

Stokestack
Strollin' around

@AgentvirtuelThanks for the tip about the wacky search-bar behavior. I don't see why the default behavior exists, or how the user is supposed to guess that this obscure tweak exists.