# New Tab Tools

> Customizes the new tab page. Add more tiles. Have a background image. Set new tile images and titles. See recently closed tabs. And more...

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/new-tab-tools](https://chrome-stats.com/d/new-tab-tools)

## Overview

- **ID:** `new-tab-tools`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Geoff Lankow
- **Category:** appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 7,612
- **Weekly downloads:** 67
- **Rating:** 4.01 / 5 (353 ratings)
- **Version:** 92.1
- **Last updated:** 2022-01-27
- **First published:** 2012-06-06
- **Size:** 164 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/privacy/)

## Description

New Tab Tools is a versatile Chrome extension designed to help users personalize their new tab page. With this tool, you can add more tiles, set custom images and titles for each tile, and even display your recently closed tabs for quick access. Though the extension is no longer maintained, its open-source nature allows curious users to explore the source code on GitHub, which may include experimental and unreleased features. Whether you want a visually appealing background or enhanced organization on your new tabs, New Tab Tools offers straightforward customization options to enhance your browsing experience.

## Rankings

- #898 — Overall
- #63 — Tabs
- #138 — Appearance
- #4 — tools
- #11 — tool
- #14 — new tab

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `idle`
- `menus`
- `sessions`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `topSites`
- `webNavigation`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

New Tab Tools provides a simple, clutter-free new tab page focused on your most visited sites and offers extensive customization plus a backup feature. Many reviews are positive about its usefulness, but notable issues appear: the project has not been maintained since late 2022, and some users report reliability problems on certain FF/OS setups. UI can be clunky, with finicky tile placement, limited reordering, and problematic thumbnail previews. It’s valuable for a lean, focused new tab, but with compatibility and usability caveats.

### Pros

- Handy, clutter-free new tab page with quick access to most-visited sites.
- Rich customization options and a backup/restore feature.
- Generally positive sentiment and useful for browser-focused workflows.

### Cons

- Not maintained since December 2022, raising compatibility and support concerns.
- Reliability issues on some setups (reports of it doing nothing on macOS/Firefox, grayscale thumbnails, or failing to load).
- UI/UX clunkiness: finicky tile placement and limited reordering; controls like the X cancel and pin are hard to remove, and dial controls can be buggy.
- Previews/thumbnails sometimes do not render (gray rectangles or missing thumbnails).

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