How to get homepage to appear in each new tab?

[MikeYates]

I have a user who overloaded memory using new windows instead of new
tabs. She will only use tabs if they appear with her home page in
them, as new windows do. Is there a way of setting Firefox to do this
with one click (customization-added "new tab" button) rather than two
( subsequently pressing the home-page button) ?
TIA
Mike

[David Pyles]

Install the Tab Mix Plus add-on, then you will get an option to always
load the home page in a new tab.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122

Dave Pyles

[Brian]

Alternately, if you only require this particular feature install the New
Tab Homepage extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777

Brian

[David McRitchie]

"Brian" wrote...

> David Pyles wrote:
>> On 12/9/2008 7:27 AM, MikeYates wrote:
>>> I have a user who overloaded memory using new windows instead of new
>>> tabs. She will only use tabs if they appear with her home page in
>>> them, as new windows do. Is there a way of setting Firefox to do this
>>> with one click (customization-added "new tab" button) rather than two
>>> ( subsequently pressing the home-page button) ?
>>

>> Install the Tab Mix Plus add-on, then you will get an option to always
>> load the home page in a new tab.
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122
>>

> Alternately, if you only require this particular feature install the New
> Tab Homepage extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777

Or a more gentle (less overhead) would be to change a Firefox setting
as requested through about:config

type about:config into the location bar
filter on: browser. tabs. loadOnNewTab
then with right-click (context) menu
change value to 1 for Home Page

More information:
Tabs configuration, extracted from About:config entries
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/tabs_config.htm

In case she changes her mind after using Tabs for a while:
You can double-click on the configuration option to restore default.
I think is unlikely that many people using Tabs will actually want
to see their home page come up more than once, as there is a
Home Page toolbar button, and keyboard shortcut Alt+Home

--
HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

[David McRitchie]

"David Pyles" <non...@user.invalid> wrote in message news:P8adnS2pCPCc6KPU...@mozilla.org...

Or a more gentle (less overhead) would be to simply change configuration
settings with about:config

type about:config into the location bar
filter on: browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab

then change value to 1 for Home Page

[MikeYates]

On 9 Dec, 22:05, "David McRitchie" <nospam@nospam> wrote:
>
> Or a more gentle (less overhead) would be to simply change configuration
> settings  with  about:config
>
> type   about:config    into the location bar
> filter on:    browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab
> then  change value  to  1   for   Home Page
>
> Tabs configuration, extracted from About:config entrieshttp://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/tabs_config.htm 

Well, "browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab" is conspicuous by its absence in
Firefox v3 !
I htried it on a v2.17 in WinME and v2.16 in Linux and neither had the
desired effect...

So it looks like she's dependant on the add-ins, of which she has a
(slightly justified IMHO) mistrust.

[David McRitchie]

"MikeYates" ...

Sorry should have looked at the last line for the about:config
configuration option description, before suggesting it as it no longer works.

Interesting reading reading is the bug listed
Bug 269664 - 'loadOnNewTab' or similar should be reimplemented
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269664

So the best extension (low impact on other things) remains
New Tab Homepage :: Firefox Add-ons ( 4 KB download)
A very simple tabbed browsing extension that loads your homepage when
you open a new tab. If you have multiple homepages, the first is chosen.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777