How To Change The New Tab Behavior In Firefox
1. Hide the thumbnails
- Click on the square icon to the upper right of that New Tab page – this hides the thumbnail pictures and your choice is supposed to be remembered even after you restart Firefox.
- Note that the square icon remains displayed – if you click it again the thumbnail pictures will reappear on New Tab pages.
2. How to make a blank page on New Tab
You can do this by setting the New Tab page to just open a blank page instead:
- Open Firefox, in the address bar (URL) type about:config, press Enter.
- Click the “I’ll be careful I Promise” warning button (if it appears) – a long list of preferences used in Firefox is displayed.
- type newtab to narrow down the list to only display preferences containing that text.
- Double click the browser.newtab.url entry and change the String Value text to about:blank (default is about:newtab).
- Close Firefox and reopen it – now, whenever you open a new tab it should just display a blank page.
3. Change New Tab to open your favorite website
- Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar (URL), press Enter.
- Click the “I’ll be careful I Promise” warning button (if it appears) – a long list of preferences used in Firefox is displayed.
- Type newtab to narrow down the list to only display preferences containing that text.
- Double click the browser.newtab.url entry and change the String Value text to your chosen website address (URL) e.g. www.google.com (the default is about:newtab).
- Now, whenever you open a New Tab it will open your chosen website.