WEDNESDAY

Mozilla Firefox Beta 3.0 Beta 3 -
Firefox 3 beta 3 was released as expected on Tuesday with more than 1300 improvements since beta 2. Most of the changes are improvements and enhancements to the user interface, ease-of-use, performance
ed note:
extensions need to be upgraded using nightly tester tools extension

www.majorgeeks.com/download5905.html

Firefox is well known as an open source browser and there are many available add ons that extend the program's functionality. So, I was thinking perhaps there was an add on that would provide a link to a new tab and a default Web page.

A little searching with Google took me to a Firefox extension that showed some promise! It's called New Tab Button on Tab Bar 2.0 and it simply adds a button to the tab bar. Then, when clicked, the button opens up a new tab. If that's something you think you might enjoy, you can install that extension right here. But, Firefox still doesn't let you specify a Web page to be opened on the blank tab.

So, I sent an e-mail to Mike Goodspeed, the add on's author, asking if he had considered extending his program code so that each new tab can be configured to open a specific page (like Internet Explorer 7).

I received a same day reply that I found both interesting and informative! I really admired Mike's minimalist programming philosophy. He said, “I try really hard to keep out any options. Plus, I see this extension as trivial enough to be one feature and one feature alone.” But, he was also gracious enough to provide the information necessary to solve my problem. He wanted me to try this extension instead.

The latter turned out to be New Tab Homepage 0.3 by Ben Basson.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777

 As it states, this add on to Firefox “loads your homepage when you open a new tab. If you have multiple homepages, the first is chosen.”

FIREFOX

mozilla.friendpages.com