Reviews for New Tab Override
New Tab Override by Sören Hentzschel
32 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14781693, a year agoAdds automatically "http://" to the URL which prevent from using values like "about:home".
Developer response
posted a year agoThis doesn't make sense since "about:home" is the default new tab page and you woulnd't use this add-on at all to use it as new tab page.
Also it's not possible at all for WebExtensions to open about:home via the tabs API. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17181494, 3 years ago🤯🤯🤯 Cannot just simply OPEN NEW TAB since now. WTF?
Without disturbing my brain with opening setup page instead again and again.
But why? Why?!
I need to have ability to open NOT only http or https as a new tab! What about "about:blank" AT LEAST? 🤨 - Rated 2 out of 5by miranda_escobedo, 3 years agoDon't know what is suddenly going wrong but this is taking forever to load
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13858042, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by dmaegerli, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17193432, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12795816, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15719379, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14696322, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by zender42, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16505220, 4 years agoCurrently not really useful due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409675
- Rated 2 out of 5by Alex Mirnov, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jed Moody, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by miwoj, 5 years agoafter opening new tab it takes 1-2 seconds for New Tab Override to load before it can be used.
too long for me, it breaks my flow. when i open new tab i want to start typing my search right away (same as in default empty new firefox tab). - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14198562, 5 years agoWhat's the point if the url bar is already filled and each time I have to clear it first to browse
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15064307, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Dick, 6 years agoI'm sure this works great for what it was designed for. However, I build my own Home Page using images on my harddrive as my link, not text. Because New Tab Override cannot load local images it's pointless.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12851851, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12505630, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14358423, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14450860, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14442851, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14320088, 6 years agoWill not allow loading local files on Ubuntu / Linux.
No, "Mozilla doesn't allow this functionality" is not an answer. I have a different extension, with the same local file, working perfectly fine on Windows 8.1 but it refuses to load on Ubuntu. This extension doesn't even make an attempt to load the file. It's HTML, CSS, JS so the semi support doesn't work (and isn't a real fix because I want changes to be made immediate which is why it's a local file in the first place). The only use I have for this extension does not work so it is immediately uninstalled.
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Edit: I don't think I can reply to developer comments so I will here instead.
Firstly, I don't need to make a GitHub issue because this isn't GitHub. This is the review section of mozilla.org where I review the extension I downloaded that doesn't do what I wanted it to. Secondly, I did say exactly what is wrong. If the path does not start with http:// or https:// the extension refuses to load without even trying. This is not a technical reason, this is a developmental choice and why the other extension loads on Windows (because it doesn't give up the moment I input my file path). Lastly, the other extension works on Windows 8.1 and 10 merely by inputting file:// (path to file) despite it too saying it's not supported. The steps to reproduce the two star review are: 1) choose new URL 2) input anything that's not http:// or https:// 3) immediately uninstall and leave a poor review reflecting this design choice.
Thank you for making the extension (I didn't rate it one star) but the extensions design choice makes it unusable for local file hosting which works despite it not being officially supported. All I need(ed) it to do was auto open an HTML file from my machine (not cache but actually open to access ./css, ./js, etc) but I have since worked around this issue.Developer response
posted 6 years agoAnd where is your GitHub issue where you are showing the other add-on and you local file? Sorry, it's not okay to give such reviews and telling the add-on does something wrong and not to say what exactly is wrong. And honestly, I can't believe that it works on Windows and not on Linux. So please provide the test case and steps to reproduce before giving bad reviews…