Tag: NEW-TAB

Desktop is a Firefox add-on that's based on the same concept as Speed Dial for the Opera web browser. Both tools let you create a series of thumbnail shortcuts for frequently visited web pages that will be available every time you open a new tab. But what makes Desktop different is that you can change the look and feel of the new tab page by dragging, dropping, and resizing thumbnails. In fact, ...

Your new tab page is obviously a pretty important part of the Firefox experience. Both Mozilla and Google have pretty slick options you can plug in, but you may not have heard of New Tab King yet. Like other options, NTK taps into your recent usage to display frequently visited sites and recently closed tabs. You can toggle the display of your used sites to include either all browsing or only ...

When you open a new tab in Firefox 3.0 you see a blank page. Mozilla has been working on ways to make that page more useful for a few weeks now. Mozilla isn't the first company to rethink the blank window. Opera has offered a "speed dial" feature with user-customizable thumbnails for your favorite web sites for a while. And Google Chrome automatically generates thumbnails from your most ...

Built-in start pages are all the rage in the latest browsers. Chrome and Safari each show slick-looking selection of your most visited pages when you open a new tab, and now Firefox is getting into the game with its own new tab page for version 3.5 (formerly known as version 3.1). The Firefox About:Tab page isn't as flashy as the other two, but it might be a bit more practical, now that it ...

A few months ago Mozilla embarked on a quest to determine a way to make new browser tabs more useful. Right now, when you open a new tab in Firefox you get a blank page. Compare that with Google Chrome, Safari, or Opera, which show you a list of shortcuts to your bookmarked or frequently visited pages. Today Mozilla's Aza Raskin shared some of the team's conclusions, based on user feedback. ...

Love him or hate him, productivity blogger Merlin Mann has come up with a great way to help keep yourself on track. The idea is to avoid the seductions of the web by stopping a moment to make sure that you're spending your time on what you really want to be spending it on. In his blog post on the subject, Merlin describes opening folders full of bookmarks all in one go, which have the potential ...