On 12/7/12 6:16 PM, Ed Mullen wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 12/7/12 10:48 AM, Ed Mullen wrote:
>>> I notice in Firefox about:home will open your home page. Also, there is
>>> a pref: browser.newtab.url
>>>
>>> which allows one to specify what opens when you open a new tab.
>>>
>>> Any idea if that will ever make it into SeaMonkey? I find it very useful.
>>>
>>
>> 1. On the SeaMonkey menu bar, go to [Edit > Preferences].
>>
>> 2. On the left side of the Preferences window under Category, select
>> Browser.
>>
>> 3. At the top of the Browser pane in the "Display on" area, there is a
>> pull-down selection list that allows you to select Browser Startup, New
>> Window, and New Tab. Underneath the selection list are radio buttons
>> that allow you to select what you see when you launch SeaMonkey, open a
>> new SeaMonkey window, and open a new tab. Each of those is independent
>> of the other two.
>>
>
> Interesting.
>
> However, have you tried about:config and tried to find
> browser.newtab.url? Doesn't exist in my SM 2.14.1, near as I can tell.
>
> I use the extension Tab Clicking Options and it does not respect this
> setting. If it is active opening a new tab via middle-clicking on the
> tab bar opens a blank tab.
>
> But I realize that isn't a SM problem.
>
>
The preference variable is browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab:
0 (default): Blank page
1: Homepage
2: Last visited page
The home page is determined by the preference variable
browser.startup.homepage.
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