# New Tab

> Shows your homepage on new tabs.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/newtab-ext](https://chrome-stats.com/d/newtab-ext)

## Overview

- **ID:** `newtab-ext`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Leigh Brenecki
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 741
- **Weekly downloads:** 38
- **Rating:** 4.04 / 5 (26 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2020-02-13
- **First published:** 2020-02-13
- **Size:** 8.36 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/newtab-ext/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/excitedleigh/newtab](https://github.com/excitedleigh/newtab)

## Description

The New Tab Chrome extension customizes your browsing experience by displaying your favorite homepage whenever you open a new tab, instead of the standard Firefox start page. This lightweight add-on ensures your URL bar remains blank and focused initially, mirroring Firefox's typical behavior until you navigate away from your homepage.

Open source under the Mozilla Public License, New Tab is coded succinctly in about 20 lines of JavaScript. Developers and users can review its source code on GitHub and contribute by filing issues if they encounter any problems. This extension offers a straightforward, minimalist way to personalize your new tabs, enhancing productivity by instantly reminding you of your preferred homepage each time you open a new tab.

## Rankings

- #3,927 — Overall
- #17 — new tab
- #22 — new tabs
- #38 — news
- #58 — tab
- #63 — tabellenkalkulation

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webNavigation`
- `browserSettings`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows retrieval of a user’s browsing history, presenting a notable privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users appreciate this add-on for its speed, simplicity, and the ability to focus the address bar immediately on a new tab. It preserves input while loading and supports useful features like page duplication via keyboard shortcuts. However, multiple users report issues with loading certain pages due to browser policies like X-Frame-Options, and some experience errors after Firefox updates. A few note that focus issues and bookmark management complexity detract from the experience.

### Pros

- Allows typing directly into the URL bar on the new tab without needing to select content first.
- Fast and responsive, with quick loading of the new tab page.
- Simple, clean, and safe open source code.
- Enables starting to enter URLs or search queries before the homepage fully loads, preserving input.
- Works well for duplicating pages using Ctrl + Drag.

### Cons

- Does not load local pages or pages blocked by X-Frame-Options policy, causing loading failures.
- Stopped working for some users after Firefox updates, showing errors when opening home pages.
- Lacks focus on the address bar in some cases, impacting usability.
- Complicated bookmark organization experience (mentioned in one review).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/newtab-ext)