Filed under: Windows, Mozilla, Open Source, Browsers, Windows x64
New Tab King for Firefox offers a clever alternative - with boss mode!
by Lee Mathews Apr 17th 2009 at 9:30AM
Your new tab page is obviously a pretty important part of the Firefox experience. Both Mozilla and Google have pretty slick options you can plug in, but you may not have heard of New Tab King yet.
Like other options, NTK taps into your recent usage to display frequently visited sites and recently closed tabs. You can toggle the display of your used sites to include either all browsing or only sites that are in your bookmarks. There's also a list of Windows shortcuts included for quick access to your My Documents folder, Notepad, Calculator, and Windows Media Player. You can also specify a custom background image.
And let's not forget about the boss mode button! Click it, and New Tab King automatically switches to a pre-defined display which includes sites like Harvard Business Publishing, Wall Street Journal, NASA, and the BBC ticker.
No, it won't destroy all traces of any questionable browsing you've been doing, but with boss mode on you can at least quickly shield your other tabs from prying eyes with control + t.
Edit: as noted by our commenters, this one is Windows only. The Firefox addon does state that, and while this post is tagged "windows" I didn't state that directly.
Like other options, NTK taps into your recent usage to display frequently visited sites and recently closed tabs. You can toggle the display of your used sites to include either all browsing or only sites that are in your bookmarks. There's also a list of Windows shortcuts included for quick access to your My Documents folder, Notepad, Calculator, and Windows Media Player. You can also specify a custom background image.
And let's not forget about the boss mode button! Click it, and New Tab King automatically switches to a pre-defined display which includes sites like Harvard Business Publishing, Wall Street Journal, NASA, and the BBC ticker.
No, it won't destroy all traces of any questionable browsing you've been doing, but with boss mode on you can at least quickly shield your other tabs from prying eyes with control + t.
Edit: as noted by our commenters, this one is Windows only. The Firefox addon does state that, and while this post is tagged "windows" I didn't state that directly.
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Pyrofallout said 11:58AM on 4-17-2009
Lame, it's incompatible with Mac.
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Josh said 1:37PM on 4-17-2009
Yeah, I went to install it and it's not available for OS X. =\
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Kenn.keeper said 1:49PM on 4-17-2009
You would think they would let you know what OS works with it, it only makes sense.
Kenn.....
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Tristan said 2:03PM on 4-17-2009
You're not missing anything.
It's underwhelming at best.
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Eli Gundry said 12:42PM on 4-18-2009
Enocode MP3's!
LIKE A BOSS!!
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