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Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.

by jstx1 5y ago

bovermyer 5y ago
I, too, rely on a completely blank tab. I've never seen a need for a "start" page. The context when I open a browser changes almost every time; I never follow a routine.
- trutannus 5y ago
  It's also yet another thing to set up again when you reinstall your OS. I do that not infrequently as it's faster than periodically uninstalling everything from the past year, like libraries, apt packages for one time needs, ect. A full refresh gets rid of even the stickiest configs that sometimes even purge and autoremove can't get at. I've started to find that what's even better than a fully tricked out installation that's heavily customized, is an minimal installation with basic usability features you can install in 20 minutes.
- vollmond 5y ago
  I like having half a dozen frequently used sites on my start page, as a better bookmark solution. Don't want a bar taking up screen real estate, but if I can click into my issue tracker, doc repo, email, etc from a new tab, that works great and then it goes away once I've loaded the site. Would be great if I could just have iframes of some of them (like the page listing all the timezones for my team so I know what time it is everywhere).
k8sToGo 5y ago
My start page url is about:blank
chrismorgan 5y ago
Yeah, I have never desired anything but about:blank. But I seldom see even that, because instead of opening a tab and then typing in a URL or query, I’ll type in the URL or query and press Alt+Enter which opens that URL or query in a new tab. And even in Firefox’s Private Browsing windows, I have this in my userContent.css so that I get a blank page there too (I started doing this when they put an ad for their VPN service, but then like Haman of old scorned to kill just .vpn-promo): @-moz-document url("about:privatebrowsing") { body { display: none !important; } }
trutannus 5y ago
Empty tab, with Firefox containers that automatically capture all google searches and open them in new tabs. That's what I have set up on my personal laptop.
sumtechguy 5y ago
For me I have 3 variations. Blank page, some search landing page, or my.yahoo.com, thought the last one I am moving away from as less sites have RSS feeds.
lovelyviking 5y ago
What is exactly works great about it? It is useless. Also this is what I have to deal with instead of my homepage opened. I cannot open my homepage from local file on a new tab and they do not fix it for years. What should happen in their strange brains to understand that this is basic functionality and it is not working! If home page doesn't work the browser doesn't work. Homepage from local file can be opened on a first tab. It is a bug if firefox can't do the same on a next tab. How difficult to comprehend this for firefox team?
- throwaway1777 5y ago
  Very few people use this feature. Seems understandable it is low priority. Firefox is open source, which is great because you can work on a fix since you seem to care more than anyone else.
  - lovelyviking 5y ago
    I went through the hell of their system of bug reporting to report this bug. After some time they just deleted it stating it was re-assigned by some bright individual to some other bug that is not fixed for years. I argued that this bug is different but never got reply from that bright individual. So why do you think that dealing with such bright individuals when I'll fix the bug would be a success story? I mean if the one in charge of the project opens a new tab that doesn't work properly and instead of fixing it this bright individual presumably goes along the lines you've described then what are the chances that my fix would be applied? If everything under control of such bright individuals that do not see it as a problem in the first place how working to support them is even justified ?
LuisMondragon 5y ago
I use the empty dark new page extension for chrome/brave. The empty new tab was too bright for my dark environment.

Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.

by jstx1 5y ago

Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.

I, too, rely on a completely blank tab. I've never seen a need for a "start" page. The context when I open a browser changes almost every time; I never follow a routine.

trutannus 5y ago
It's also yet another thing to set up again when you reinstall your OS. I do that not infrequently as it's faster than periodically uninstalling everything from the past year, like libraries, apt packages for one time needs, ect. A full refresh gets rid of even the stickiest configs that sometimes even purge and autoremove can't get at. I've started to find that what's even better than a fully tricked out installation that's heavily customized, is an minimal installation with basic usability features you can install in 20 minutes.
vollmond 5y ago
I like having half a dozen frequently used sites on my start page, as a better bookmark solution. Don't want a bar taking up screen real estate, but if I can click into my issue tracker, doc repo, email, etc from a new tab, that works great and then it goes away once I've loaded the site. Would be great if I could just have iframes of some of them (like the page listing all the timezones for my team so I know what time it is everywhere).

k8sToGo 5y ago

My start page url is about:blank

chrismorgan 5y ago

Yeah, I have never desired anything but about:blank. But I seldom see even that, because instead of opening a tab and then typing in a URL or query, I’ll type in the URL or query and press Alt+Enter which opens that URL or query in a new tab. And even in Firefox’s Private Browsing windows, I have this in my userContent.css so that I get a blank page there too (I started doing this when they put an ad for their VPN service, but then like Haman of old scorned to kill just .vpn-promo): @-moz-document url("about:privatebrowsing") { body { display: none !important; } }

trutannus 5y ago

Empty tab, with Firefox containers that automatically capture all google searches and open them in new tabs. That's what I have set up on my personal laptop.

sumtechguy 5y ago

For me I have 3 variations. Blank page, some search landing page, or my.yahoo.com, thought the last one I am moving away from as less sites have RSS feeds.

lovelyviking 5y ago

What is exactly works great about it? It is useless. Also this is what I have to deal with instead of my homepage opened. I cannot open my homepage from local file on a new tab and they do not fix it for years. What should happen in their strange brains to understand that this is basic functionality and it is not working! If home page doesn't work the browser doesn't work. Homepage from local file can be opened on a first tab. It is a bug if firefox can't do the same on a next tab. How difficult to comprehend this for firefox team?

throwaway1777 5y ago
Very few people use this feature. Seems understandable it is low priority. Firefox is open source, which is great because you can work on a fix since you seem to care more than anyone else.
- lovelyviking 5y ago
  I went through the hell of their system of bug reporting to report this bug. After some time they just deleted it stating it was re-assigned by some bright individual to some other bug that is not fixed for years. I argued that this bug is different but never got reply from that bright individual. So why do you think that dealing with such bright individuals when I'll fix the bug would be a success story? I mean if the one in charge of the project opens a new tab that doesn't work properly and instead of fixing it this bright individual presumably goes along the lines you've described then what are the chances that my fix would be applied? If everything under control of such bright individuals that do not see it as a problem in the first place how working to support them is even justified ?

LuisMondragon 5y ago

I use the empty dark new page extension for chrome/brave. The empty new tab was too bright for my dark environment.