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

[Glen Strom]

On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:47:43 -0400
Scott Sullivan <scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

It sounds like you might want an extension called Speed Dial.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/speed-dial/

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