GeeNifty: Override Firefox's Newtab page for a custom page.

[Scott Sullivan]

So I'd say most of us are familiar with changing the default home page 
in our browsers. In my case I usually explicitly set it to about:blank[1].

Lately at work I've gotten tired of the traditional Bookmarks for all 
the web-portals I interact with, and instead wanted a custom portal page 
from which to jump off from. Now I could set the home page to this 
custom page, but it would only load it the creation of a new window.

For this portal page to be truly useful, I wanted it on every new blank tab.

The graphical prefrence menu is no help here, thankfully I learned long 
ago that is not the end to settings. For example, of the many about: 
urls is about:config. And sure enough, in there was just the setting I 
was looking for.

Preference Name: browser.newtab.url

Now I'm happy with being only a newtab away most of the sites I use. No 
silly bookmark menu sub-folder navigating.

So question to the List:

Given a similar situation, what conveniences would you have put together?


[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_URI_scheme
      ^ Some real interesting ones in here.

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