Set an alternative home page when opening a new tab

[BLAlley]

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.

[Jon]

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

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

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

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]

set homepage to anything

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

[Jon]

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

[LeandroHMO]

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

[Stokestack]

@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.

[FoxCrow]

Custom URL for New Tab

I think it would be neat to be able to set the New Tab to be a custom URL just like how one can currently set the homepage and New Window to be a custom URL.

[Jon]

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

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Another https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-to-change-home-page-and-new-tab-to-desired-url-or-any... similar

[StopBreakingUX]

So after reading thru the comments, malware and third party addons can change this, but we can't simply get an option to change it. got it...

I'm not sure what happened to ff over the years, used to be filled with options, then it was "hey, you need to learn coding to make simple changes like tabs on bottom" and now it's, we don't know how to securely code this, but you can use an addon that does the job.

[glassjaw740]

It is now 2025 and this still isn't a feature.  Why?

[joefiesta]

I just noticed that, ff 138.01, the SETTINGS / HOME page is now displaying "new tab override"  as a built-in option.   Does that REPLACE the new tab override add-on?  

And, was this ever announced as a change?

[A8y4g]

@joefiesta I don't have it there and I have ff 139, is this by any chance the installed addon?

Btw. somehow I have a feeling that the inability to override new tab url is due to the contract with google. They want us to have google search front and center. If that is so, its pretty efed up, because if they don't have the contract they don't have money, the browser is dead, because no one was capable of finding any proper alternative income source in what... in 20 years?

[giandoe]

As a person who just switched from chrome I don't know how this isn't an option.  Our default new tab opens the google.com page which has the drop down with all our apps at the upper right.  This drives me crazy why is it an option for new window but not new tab it makes no sense!

[Stokestack]

The "contract with Google" idea doesn't hold water, because you can't even set your default new-tab page to Google (which is in fact what I was trying to do).