You do not get a blank page whenever you open a new tab in the Google browser. Google Chrome displays thumbnails of the most visited websites together with a search function and a list of recently closed pages which can be a great time saver if the user intents to open a website that is listed in that display.
Some users might think that this is like Speed Dial which is offered by the Opera web browser. The difference here besides the additional functionality is that the user picks the Speed Dial websites that are displayed while they are selected by the history in Google Chrome.
The Firefox add-on New Tab JumpStart (via Firefox Facts) clones the new tab functionality of the Google web browser and brings it to the Firefox community. It will display the most visited websites, a search box, the most recent bookmarks and closed tabs. The add-on comes with more settings that can change the appearance quite a bit. It is for example possible to change the number of thumbnails of websites that are displayed from 3×3 (which is three thumbnails in three rows) to 10×7 which equals the 70 most visited websites.
The add-on is not fully compatible with the Firefox 3.5x branch. Compatibility can be forced but it seems to lead to display problems as the recent bookmarks and recently closed websites are displayed awkwardly. The add-on consumes quite a bit of computer memory. The amount largely depends on the amount of thumbnail images that are displayed.
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For christ’s sake do your homework properly. That’s another Opera feature falsely attributed to Firefox.
Which feature are you talking about?
With TabMixPlus, you have to set the new tab location to “chrome://jumpstart/content/tabView.xul”
google’s beta firefox addon, Googlebar 5 maybe, has this same feature.
Good thing this new tab feature is not implemented in Firefox : I dislike it. One of those stupid gadgets, IMO. Too many of these gadgets are on the row, when simplicity requires basic features enhanced in quality, not quantity. I omit already say 25% of Firefox’s 3.0.* “features”, and I presume that’ll raise to 50% on 3.5 …The “awesome” bar, the tags; the alt-tab wonderlands for instance remain an amount of bloated concepts, as far as I’m concerned.
Google’s Chrome browser hit the web yesterday. Whether you wanted to or not, you definitely downloaded Google’s effort to see what ingenuity they put into their browser. It’s clean, fast, and more stable than Firefox has been for me lately. Of course, there’s always a chance that Chrome will have a quirk that none of the other browsers have and you may need to use client side detection to fix the problem. You can detect Chrome by using the following bit of Javascript: