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Second Look at a New Tab King

It has been a while since I checked out the New Tab King add-on for Firefox, and I have to say I am impressed with the progression of the Firefox extension.  For those of you who don’t know, New Tab King replaces your blank new tab with a much more functional page of tools.

You get instant access to recently closed tabs, personalized suggested sites and even shortcuts to your desktop applications. 

Closer Look at New Tab King

The most recent release also comes with 7 built in themes, so you have a few more ways to customize it to suit your needs.

There is no reason why, these days, your new tab should be empty and bland.  With the New Tab King add-on for Firefox, you can make the new tab page and the Firefox browser even more functional than it was before.

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  • Vincent
    I tried New Tab King but I liked Mozilla Labs' About:Tab much better :)
  • Actually, there's every reason your new tab should be blank. It all has to do with Firefox being the slowest, heaviest app on just about any non-Windows desktop. (Everyone's switching to WebKit-based offerings: Safari (MacOS), Arora (Qt), Epiphany (GNOME), Midori (LXDE), etc.)

    The Firefox devs underwhelmed me by postponing their long-overdue GUI performance optimization until Firefox 4 and I've been using WebKit-based browsers more and more. (They're getting pretty good at providing better performance than vanilla Firefox and, at the same time, most of the features you normally want extensions for.)

    I'm just plain sick of Firefox devs leaving "essential but slow" features to 3rd-party extensions and running their benchmarks on their "lean(er) but minimally useful" vanilla offering. (Translation: Who gives a damn what the benchmarks say. It's the user experience that counts.)
  • Hi Mitch and thanks for the super kind note.
    Please notice that you can get the latest version from this idrect link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons...

    --eddie
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