about:config --> browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabWallpapers.enabled true

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    8 months ago

    The tab could have some other useful things… If Mozilla allowed some form of customization or extensibility. Big clock, weather, and the stuff they have right now (icons) are pretty useful too.

    There’s a reason UI/UX people design these things, and one day I’ll figure out what it is.

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      8 months ago

      I can see color being used to help encode themed tabs for the end user. Red theme for media tab groups, grey for research groups, etc. Might be cool

      I mean shit, Linux people customize the absolute dick out of their computers down to fine tuning the kernel, and people are poo-pooing this?

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      8 months ago

      I find it super distracting. The only reason I ever open a new tab is to search or enter a URL, so all I need is it to focus in the URL bar. Or I guess seeing open tabs on other devices, the new pinned tab thing they added solves that.

      I’m okay with it existing, as long as there’s an easy way to turn it all off. I use Brave for testing, and I dislike the new tab page there. My OS has a clock, and I can get OS widgets for everything else, I just want my browser to browse…

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          8 months ago

          Why not just type the first few letters in the URL bar? For my lemmy instance, I just type “sh” and it completes. For everything else, I use Duckduckgo bangs (“!a” for Amazon, “!w” for Wikipedia, etc).

          It should totally be an option, but I don’t remember the last time I ever clicked on anything in the new tab page.

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            8 months ago

            If you’ve just opened a new tab, your hand is on the mouse and the page you want is one click away, why bother typing?

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                8 months ago

                Right, but you asked why not type it, I was giving you a reason why. That’s also why I put in the disclaimer about having your hand on the mouse.