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Tabshift: Custom New Tab URL by Jai Pandya

Set any URL, dashboard or localhost as your new tab. No flash, cursor in the address bar, shift between pages in one click.

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Any URL can be your new tab, like a team wiki or localhost:3000.Your page opens with no flash, and the cursor waits in the address bar.Shift between your pages from the toolbar in one click.Tabshift reads no sites, sends nothing and has no trackers.
About this extension
Tabshift opens any URL as your new tab: your inbox, a team wiki, a dashboard or localhost:3000. It redirects before the page paints and leaves the cursor in the address bar, so you can type straight away.

It's built to feel like nothing at all:
  • No flash. Tabshift sends you on in your theme's colours, so dark mode stays dark.
  • No loops. Back from your page never throws you forward again.
  • The cursor stays in the address bar, where Firefox puts it.

Keep more than one page:
  • Shift between them from the toolbar in one click, by right-clicking the Tabshift button, or with a keyboard shortcut.
  • Shuffle: a different page from your list each time you open a tab yourself, not when a link opens one.
  • Use this page: one click makes the site you're on your new tab.
  • A blank page is always there too.

It understands the addresses you actually type. notion.so gets https, and localhost:3000 and 192.168.1.1 get http. When an address can't work, like an about: or data: address, Tabshift tells you why in one sentence. Firefox doesn't let add-ons open files from your computer, so a file can't be your new tab here.

Private by design:
  • No permission warnings when you add it, and no access to the sites you visit.
  • No network, no account, no analytics.
  • Your pages sync with Firefox Sync if you use it, and nothing is sent anywhere else.

Private windows keep Firefox's own new tab until you allow Tabshift to run in them.
Developer comments
Firefox says my new tab has changed. What do I choose?
Choose Keep Changes. Firefox asks once, the first time Tabshift opens your new tab. Manage New Tabs only opens Firefox's settings.

Can a file on my computer be my new tab?
Not in Firefox: it doesn't let add-ons open files from your computer. A page on your own computer's server, like localhost:3000, works.

Why do private windows still show Firefox's new tab?
Firefox runs add-ons in private windows only when you allow it. Open about:addons, choose Tabshift and set Run in Private Windows to Allow.

How do I set a keyboard shortcut for the next page?
Go to about:addons, click the gear icon, then Manage Extension Shortcuts.

How do I get Firefox's own new tab back?
Turn Tabshift off or remove it in about:addons. Firefox doesn't let add-ons open its own new tab page, so it isn't a choice inside Tabshift.
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Version
1.0.0
Size
797.47 KB
Last updated
11 days ago (Oct 29, 2026)
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