Mozilla removes option to change New Tab Page from Firefox Version 41 (FIX)

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If you like the new tab to open a URL like google.com for example (as I do) this is the fix for Firefox 41 as Mozilla seems to like to send us to their new tab interface that is nothing more than useless and to send you ads.

The old about:config fix "browser.newtab.url" does not work anymore they disabled the feature..:mad:


Fix below..

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/28/mozilla-removes-option-to-change-new-tab-page-from-firefox/



New Tab Override (browser.newtab.url replacement) 1.0

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/
 
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Getting a bit fed up with FF now - not only do they increasingly seem to be losing touch with their audience it seems to be get progressively less responsive with each build and struggles more and more with content heavy sites/locking up the browser with stuff that should be multi-threaded by now.

While my installs on Windows 7 are mostly stable the Windows 8 installs are progressively more frequently crashing.

This is over several PCs with various states from fresh clean installs to installations that are years old and loaded up with scripts and add-ons, etc. so not a case of cleaning temp files, etc.

Fired up an old laptop the other day that had an old setup with FF 33 or 34 or something and it was a way more responsive experience than I'm currently getting on 40+ builds :(

EDIT: Typical - having just posted that I updated to 41 on my main system and its back to being fairly snappy and responsive (so far).
 
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41 seems to have added back some performance and stability, but feature wise it still feels like it's going in the wrong direction.

The Android version seems to have got better as well, but it still has issues loading some pages if I'm in an area with poor signal while Chrome works completely fine.
 
Yeah quite surprised - after my post and all - updated all my systems to 41 and so far they all seem to be back to the old performance and stability I was enjoying before the 34.x.x release onwards :S but still not liking the feature direction they are going down at the moment.
 
yeah the mozilla team really need to start thinking about what their users actually want rather than just ignoring them and doing whatever they want.

One of the last updates added native 'pocket' support which already had a better featured add on that actually worked and this time they've added instant messaging that at present only works in firefox....

They also 'disabled flash' which is fine but I now get pop ups saying 'enable flash' on sites where there is no flash elements visible so it's seems to be detecting flash adverts even though they're not loading....surely there is a better way to do it. I'd even settle for a simple 'turn on flash' type button lol.

So instead of focusing on performance (one of the reasons left for chrome and even spartan) they keep bloating out firefox with more junk of which I don't know anyone that actually uses it.... and stop taking out things that users actually use, we shouldn't need to rely on add ons to get core features back
 
lsg1r said:
They also 'disabled flash' which is fine but I now get pop ups saying 'enable flash' on sites where there is no flash elements visible so it's seems to be detecting flash adverts even though they're not loading....surely there is a better way to do it. I'd even settle for a simple 'turn on flash' type button lol.
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Flash is easy to turn on,check your flash plug-in extension in browser and untick protected mode.

I'm on 64 bit version of Firefox ie 42.01 beta,seems faster then the official 32 bit build.
 
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Rroff said:
Getting a bit fed up with FF now - not only do they increasingly seem to be losing touch with their audience it seems to be get progressively less responsive with each build and struggles more and more with content heavy sites/locking up the browser with stuff that should be multi-threaded by now.

While my installs on Windows 7 are mostly stable the Windows 8 installs are progressively more frequently crashing.

This is over several PCs with various states from fresh clean installs to installations that are years old and loaded up with scripts and add-ons, etc. so not a case of cleaning temp files, etc.

Fired up an old laptop the other day that had an old setup with FF 33 or 34 or something and it was a way more responsive experience than I'm currently getting on 40+ builds :(

EDIT: Typical - having just posted that I updated to 41 on my main system and its back to being fairly snappy and responsive (so far).
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I moved on to Chrome a couple of months back.

Not just faster at rendering websites and more responsive due to multiprocess architecture but has some neat features:

1. New tabs do not render in he background until clicked, which means even more responsive browsing.
2. Spell check works natively.
3. Page translation works natively
4. Audio indicator.
5. Pausing of non essential flash content by default.
 
Not a fan of Chrome for several reasons - though pausing of non-essential flash content by default wouldn't be a bad thing - never tried looking in the advanced options to see if its possible with FF.
 
lsg1r said:
They also 'disabled flash' which is fine but I now get pop ups saying 'enable flash' on sites where there is no flash elements visible so it's seems to be detecting flash adverts even though they're not loading....surely there is a better way to do it. I'd even settle for a simple 'turn on flash' type button lol.
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Do you have an out-of-date version of Flash installed?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ will tell you.

Go to about:addons and tell Flash to use 'Ask to Activate'.

Hide Plugin bar
 
I moved to Chrome when FF added some chat feature???

I like Firefox, I customise the hell out of it, but I just don't like the direction they are going. I was a slim thin client I can add features on that I want.
 
Yea it is slowly filling with crapware. Chrome isn't much better though, google like to spy on people a lot more than mozilla do :/
 
Seem to be having some issues scrolling with the mouse wheel (holding it down) with 41+ builds - some pages it works fine others (especially with videos or images) its highly erratic - strangely enabling hardware acceleration makes it work better with some pages but not all.

Even on these forums I can scan up and down some threads with it and others it will keep stopping/skips to a random part.
 
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