Jezra.net: set default URL to open in new Firefox tab

set default URL to open in new Firefox tab

2013-03-02

On my development laptop, I use FireFox almost solely for work related needs. For example, I've set the homepage for FireFox to point to my work's bug tracking website. However, I also wanted Firefox to open the same bug tracking page when I open a new tab. Unfortunately, the Firefox preferences panel doesn't have the option to do what I want to do.

Fortunately for me, it is still possible; and here is how I set the URL that gets opened in a new tab on Firefox.

Making Firefox do what I want

Enter "about:config" into the URL field
Click on the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button
*
Search for "browser.newtab.url"
Right click on the "browser.newtab.url" preference and a small menu will appear; select "Modify" from the menu
A dialog box will appear that allows one to enter the URL to appear when a new tab is created
rejoice!

Hopefully this saves someone a bit of time.

set default URL to open in new Firefox tab from jezra.net

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