# New Tab Home

> There's no place like home.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `newtab-home`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Roly
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 436
- **Weekly downloads:** 14
- **Rating:** 4.33 / 5 (12 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.6.2
- **Last updated:** 2025-02-19
- **First published:** 2020-08-02
- **Size:** 161 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/newtab-home/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/ylor/newtab-home](https://github.com/ylor/newtab-home)

## Description

**There's no place like home.** New Tab Home ensures that your personal homepage is front and center whenever you open a new tab on Chrome. This extension focuses on simplicity and privacy by requesting only the minimal permissions necessary to function effectively. It's completely free to use and 100% open-source, giving you full transparency and control over its operations. Whether you're looking for a consistent start page or a clean browsing experience, New Tab Home is designed to be your reliable new tab companion.

## Rankings

- #5,409 — Overall
- #4 — home
- #28 — new tab
- #45 — come
- #59 — new tabs
- #100 — news

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `browserSettings`
- `storage`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Can alter new tab settings; fairly benign but with some capability to affect user experience.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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