Re: Firefox 8 Tabs question

[98 Guy]

ralph...@private.com wrote:

> This question refers to Firefox 8.01 running in Windows98se with
> Kernal-Ex.

First I have to ask why you're using FF 8 - or point out to you that
bookmarks and the recent-history drop-down bar don't work on FF8 with
win-98/KernelEx. I believe that they do work in FF7.

> How can I make New Tabs open my homepage.

I can confirm that with FF2, new tabs indeed DO NOT open according to
your selected home-page (which I didn't know because my default is a
blank page) and apparently this behavior extends up to at least very
recent versions of FF (who can keep track of them any more...)

However, I can also confirm (because I've just installed it) that this
addon DOES work with FF2 and DOES do exactly what you want:

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NewTabURL 2.2.3
August 13, 2011

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newtaburl/

Select the default URL when new tabs are opened.

The options are: "A blank page", "The home page", "The current page" or
a user defined URL.

When there is an URL in the clipboard, it is also possible to open
automatically that URL in the new tab.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newtaburl/
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[ralph...@private.com]

On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:50:13 -0500, 98 Guy <9...@Guy.com> wrote:

>ralph...@private.com wrote:
>
>> This question refers to Firefox 8.01 running in Windows98se with
>> Kernal-Ex.
>
>First I have to ask why you're using FF 8 - or point out to you that
>bookmarks and the recent-history drop-down bar don't work on FF8 with
>win-98/KernelEx. I believe that they do work in FF7.
>

I was not aware of that problem because I dont use bookmarks at all. My
"homepage" *IS* my bookmarks. I have 7 browsers installed. If I had to
try to keep track of which browser has which bookmark, I'd go insane. I
have to spend a few minutes every so often doing a little HTM editing to
modify my homepage file, but that same file opens in every browser and
is always there and ready to pick my most used pages as well as a list
of search engines, as well as youtube, wikipedia, and other common
stuff.

I did notice that the "recent history" does not work, (and was not sure
why), but "history" is a feature I rarely use in any browser. In fact I
clear the history whenever I clear the cache, which is at least once a
day. so it really dont matter to me.

FF8 works fine otherwise!

>> How can I make New Tabs open my homepage.
>
>I can confirm that with FF2, new tabs indeed DO NOT open according to
>your selected home-page (which I didn't know because my default is a
>blank page) and apparently this behavior extends up to at least very
>recent versions of FF (who can keep track of them any more...)
>
>However, I can also confirm (because I've just installed it) that this
>addon DOES work with FF2 and DOES do exactly what you want:
>
>---------------
>NewTabURL 2.2.3
>August 13, 2011
>
>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newtaburl/

This is exactly what I was looking for. It works great. Thanks!