Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.
It is useless. Also this is what I have to deal with instead of my homepage opened.
I cannot open my homepage from local file on a new tab and they do not fix it for years.
What should happen in their strange brains to understand that this is basic functionality and it is not working! If home page doesn't work the browser doesn't work.
Homepage from local file can be opened on a first tab. It is a bug if firefox can't do the same on a next tab. How difficult to comprehend this for firefox team?
So why do you think that dealing with such bright individuals when I'll fix the bug would be a success story? I mean if the one in charge of the project opens a new tab that doesn't work properly and instead of fixing it this bright individual presumably goes along the lines you've described then what are the chances that my fix would be applied? If everything under control of such bright individuals that do not see it as a problem in the first place how working to support them is even justified ?
I've never seen a need for a "start" page. The context when I open a browser changes almost every time; I never follow a routine.
I've started to find that what's even better than a fully tricked out installation that's heavily customized, is an minimal installation with basic usability features you can install in 20 minutes.
But I seldom see even that, because instead of opening a tab and then typing in a URL or query, I’ll type in the URL or query and press Alt+Enter which opens that URL or query in a new tab.
And even in Firefox’s Private Browsing windows, I have this in my userContent.css so that I get a blank page there too (I started doing this when they put an ad for their VPN service, but then like Haman of old scorned to kill just .vpn-promo):
@-moz-document url("about:privatebrowsing") {
body {
display: none !important;
}
}