Reviews for New Tab Tools
New Tab Tools by Geoff Lankow
Review by Steve R
Rated 2 out of 5
by Steve R, 6 years agoMy original review was good but after a windows 10 update KB4023057 (has its own problems) and the Firefox update to 64.0.2 I had 2 problems, the cursor racing across the screen which appears to have gone after I removed the Win 10 update but this extn keeps crashing and when I restore the tab it also does the same thing, very frustrating and still not sure where the probIem is, but it means I have to close the tab and start again, so all I have are my sites all on the tab but tolerate the crashing.
I missed the old when FF messed around with 57 and gave me 9 tabs + suggestions. Just had a windows update, which messed up again and coincided with an FF update which wiped the old 9 tabs and my entire history!. This new one now works fine although I am having trouble with the tile displaying the icon, I wish the drag/copy was an option and also, just for me, a pin tile so I don't hit the unpin and have to start again.
This is pretty close to the pre 57 version and with a bit of tweaking will be just as good.
I missed the old when FF messed around with 57 and gave me 9 tabs + suggestions. Just had a windows update, which messed up again and coincided with an FF update which wiped the old 9 tabs and my entire history!. This new one now works fine although I am having trouble with the tile displaying the icon, I wish the drag/copy was an option and also, just for me, a pin tile so I don't hit the unpin and have to start again.
This is pretty close to the pre 57 version and with a bit of tweaking will be just as good.
352 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by das-concha-toro, 2 months agoVery useful, specially for those which work on the browser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13268649, 5 months agoGreat add-on. Allows me to have a personalised new tab page with direct access to dozens of frequently-used sites. Does a fine job and looks great.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Evgenijs, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by amacdope, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14212446, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Lumidaub, 7 months agoPlacing tiles can be a bit finicky at times and the add-on doesn't always auto-generate thumbnails from the page but other than that does exactly what it's mean to which is simply provide a very handy new tab with my most visited pages and without any unnecessary nonsense (like daily quotes or the weather).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15417953, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ricky, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14111115, a year agoNo longer maintained since December 2022 but still works well :) Lots of settings and a nice backup function👍
- Rated 5 out of 5by freddy9425, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17784028, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6862080, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Slinx, a year agonice, but doesn't allow for moving items to lower rows if you don't have the above filled up, and also doesn't show up if you middle mouse click the taskbar icon
- Rated 4 out of 5by Kelsie, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17621786, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sorush_damadi, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17533932, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13149458, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16318253, 2 years agoGray rectangles instead of previews. FF103x64, Win7.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rusty Trombone, 2 years agoLooks promising, but adding dials is quite clunky and will sometimes work, sometimes not. But the main reason I can't use the extension is that there's no way to remove the X cancel and pin buttons, and it's too annoying to constantly lose dials when pressing wrong here. It will also suddenly drop dials with longer addresses for some bizarre reason.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15037318, 2 years agoTO THE DEVELOPER:
---There is a problem, the current thumbnail images do not show at all. So you end up with grey rectangles instead of a rectangle with the current thumbnail image!
It seems to correct itself when I click on the grey thumbnail then I see the current image BUT it is not a the current thumbnail image that is immediately recognizable and therefore that is much better than the image shown when you click on the grey rectangle link.
If you could allow to show the current thumbnail image instead like it is shown on the original new tab, then it would be much better I believe.
---Could you allow the Recently Closed Tabs to be located at the top or at the bottom of the page. I personally prefer at the bottom of the page.
Could you allow also to add 1 or more rows and columns for these Recently Closed Tabs, as I have a 4K 43-inch monitor and I have a lot of space both vertically and horizontally I could say.
---So, could you allow also blank lines (1 or more) above the Recently Closed Tabs when it is located at the bottom of the page and below the Recently Closed Tabs when it is located at the top of the page, as currently there is simply no space at all just below the Recently Closed Tabs.
---You could also add a quick explanation in Options where you say something like the following. Open a new tab, click at the top right on the icon called Personalize New Tab and select the options that you want to use to customize your new tab page the way you want it.
Because at the very beginning, I was kind of lost until I realized that I had to open a new tab to see this Personalize New Tab! I know, it is obvious but...! If I was lost, so probably quite a few other people are likely to be too.
---A HUGE PROBLEM!!
You might think it is dead easy to add new links on the new tab with your addon? Well, it was not and I will explain. For example, I have say 4 rows and 10 columns of links that are on this new tab page. I go to the end on the first row first rectangle from the left to add a new link and it simply does not add it at all!! That is how frustrating it is!!
---BUT I discovered what really happened. I had 10 columns, 4 rows and I was tryting to add 2 more links and so I opened the page for each and used the New Tab Tools icon and then pin to the New Tab Page and it was greyed. What happened is that the 2 links I could not add them because they were already there on the new tab page but they were behind existing rectangle links so I could not see them! When I moved 2 links to the next row, then I could get the 2 links I wanted to add because they were already there on the New Tab page!! Probably a bug I would assume.
---To add links on the new tab page, it would be much better that you allow, if possible to do, the following feature.
On Firefox, I have a button called Show sidebars where, when clicked, I see at the left all my bookmarks.
I created a folder of links that I want to place on the new tab page with your addon. I could select them in the folder, do a copy and go to your tab page, select by right-clicking the mouse the option paste and I paste all the selected links onto your new tab page and it would add them all on this new tab page. That dead simple would be a dream.
By the way, you seem to have a Firefox addon called Better Reader but it does not show as an addon on the Firefox addons page at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Many thanks for this New Tab Tools addon. It is very good. I particular like the option of being able to put a background photo of your choice.
Kind Regards
Michael - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14982254, 2 years agoAlmost prefect! Add please tiles mode for background and an option for tiles without boundaries