Then go to the Add-on Manager and you'll see a Manage Styles link. Dark New Tab, is a simple and very lite add-on which enables you to open a new tab, completely empty, with a dark or white background color. MozillaLinks has an example of how to add a custom background to the new tab page, but you can expand this to include the homepage as well.įirst you need Stylish, if you don't already have it. Every time you press on the reload button (top right corner in the new tab UI), a new image will be loaded. Unsplash API however, supports unlimited images per day. Bing API only supports one high quality image per day. Since Stylish scripts can be made to target anything, they can target internal Firefox pages too, pages like about:newtab for example (or about:home, about:config and anything else for that matter). It supports two different APIs (Bing and Unsplash) for fetching background image. Granted, there's no easy way to do it by default, but if you don't mind installing Stylish, which you should anyway, and aren't scared of a little CSS, it's child's play. If you feel the new tab page needs a little push, there's one way to liven it up, add a background. So long in fact that when it finally arrived, it was a bit underwhelming.

Reader J writes in with a good reason to take it a step further. Plenty of others have been waiting for it for a long time. Firefox has always had the option of forcing a link that tries to open in a new window to open in a new tab.

Not everyone likes it and plenty of people simply chose to disable it. The new tab page is one of the big new additions in Firefox 13.

Firefox new tab background