Add new tab page settings #2999

rebron · 2019-01-17T05:58:02Z

Description

Create new setting 'New tab page shows' with drop down menu:
a) Dashboard with images
b) Homepage
c) Blank page

Related to: #960
and should show in the Get Started section

petemill · 2019-01-17T06:05:05Z

We actually need the browser implementation for this as well. As in there is no functionality at the moment for new tabs to open to a specified URL. I’m not sure how much of a priority this would be for our users? Especially since an extension could fulfill that need.

rebron · 2019-01-17T06:08:59Z

Carryover as a muon feature parity. Separating out from the other issue due to actually having the functionality available.

rebron · 2019-01-24T19:04:08Z

We should probably reconsider placement. I'd rather these settings be available on the new tab page where it's accessible and relevant than buried in Settings. cc: @karenkliu, @cezaraugusto

eljuno · 2019-01-26T01:52:40Z

+1s from Community https://community.brave.com/t/feature-request-empty-new-tab-page/39676?u=eljuno

https://community.brave.com/t/disable-dashboard/44299?u=eljuno

https://community.brave.com/t/new-tab-page-options/45847/3?u=eljuno

cezaraugusto · 2019-01-29T15:33:48Z

agree with @rebron. cc @karenkliu for ideas

srirambv · 2019-01-29T15:46:29Z

++ on @rebron's idea of having it in new tab itself

tildelowengrimm · 2019-01-29T16:39:14Z

We could have it both places.

franzjschneider · 2019-02-02T21:41:09Z

+1 from me on this. Blank new-tab pages are about all I use. Let clutter, less resources, less distraction. Simple.

ghost · 2019-03-13T01:04:08Z

tl;dr ... +1 need options set custom URL or page/blank/edit wallpaper background

I installed Brave just now on my Pixel and my Windows 10 Machine. Imported all my bookmarks, made a sync (cool feature), had a look at all my plugins in Chrome, installed them manually on Brave, did all the settings stuff I need on my Android and Windows system for browsing. Uninstalled Bromite on my Android and Chrome on my Windows. I really enjoyed Brave and thought I do not need anything else now. And then I realized that on Brave for Android and for Windows I do not have any options for the new tab page - and I see that (sorry) ugly page with useless information when opening a new tab. Options for the new tab page are essential. This is a letdown, and even at least on Windows I could add a plugin to override, but those plugins cause a lag when opening the custom page on a new tab. I wonder why a project that wants to create something better on the basis of chromium/chrome removes such an important feature. Sigh. Kudos to the devs, no disrespect intended.

dpedu · 2019-03-21T18:47:07Z

+1. It's ridiculous that a browser does not allow us to set a home page.

rebron · 2019-03-21T19:20:12Z

@dpedu I think you mean for new tab page, we're working on that. For homepage/home button in settings you can set your homepage there when you show the home button. And on startup, you can specify the page you want.

dpedu · 2019-03-21T20:33:12Z

@rebron what I mean by home page is the screen shown when opening a new tab, be it in a new window, tab in an existing window, or when I open the browser. Some of these can be changed w/o an extension, yes, others not.

bchen32 · 2019-05-25T16:44:20Z

@dpedu Yeah that's just called new tab. Homepage is something else entirely.

bchen32 · 2019-05-25T16:45:54Z

I wish that the newtab was identical to the chrome one or that it at least changed backgrounds with the theme. Currently, themes can't change the newtab background, which is 50% the reason I even use themes in the first place

chakrihacker · 2020-09-25T05:35:22Z

Any Update on this. I kind of looking for options to have duckduckgo(any other search engine) in the middle of new tab page or an option to make search engine the default tab page

ghost · 2020-10-25T09:09:22Z

Having just downloaded Brave I am shocked this feature is not available. It seems quite deliberate as a revenue generator as you have to uncheck a slew of defaults simply to get the page to not show all of the default content on it.

Bad UX...

bsclifton · 2020-10-26T07:03:46Z

@wilfra we're working on a fix now - patch is up here for review (thanks @simonhong):
brave/brave-core#6879

This is likely going to be merged to 1.18 which should hit Release channel ~December 8th

bsclifton · 2020-11-01T18:39:03Z

Live in Nightly! 😄 Great job, @simonhong

GeetaSarvadnya · 2020-12-07T15:00:00Z

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Brave | 1.18.69 Chromium: 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Revision | 89e2380a3e36c3464b5dd1302349b1382549290d-refs/branch-heads/4280@{#1761}
OS | Windows 10 OS Version 2004 (Build 19041.630)

Verified the test plan from brave/brave-core#6879
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Verified that Customize Brave Dashboard settings text is replaced with New tab page shows... and the dropdown has 3 options Dashboard, Homepage and Blank page

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Verified the test plan from brave/brave-core#6879
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Verified that Customize Brave Dashboard settings text is replaced with New tab page shows... and the dropdown has 3 options Dashboard, Homepage and Blank page

pitsi · 2020-12-11T13:28:42Z

Noob question and sorry for bringing this back up.
I am interested in setting a "homepage" (= an html file I have locally) there. So. how do I set that homepage that will open in every new tab?

simonhong · 2020-12-11T23:45:20Z

@pitsi That homepage option is related with below homepage option.
If homepage is configured, new tab will show that url. Loading local html file in new tab is not supported.

pitsi · 2020-12-12T10:19:26Z

Thank you. Well hidden setting :P

On my end, I can set a local file there (file:///home/user/whatever.html) and it works as a regular page from the net.
Plus, once I set that homepage under show home button, I can disable the home button again and the page still works!
Until today, I was running lighttpd on my system to serve that page locally and I had set it as a page for newtab with new tab redirect. Now I can remove them both :)

simonhong · 2020-12-12T10:27:01Z

@pitsi Great tip!

raiden-e · 2024-09-24T22:22:33Z

Thank you. Well hidden setting :P

On my end, I can set a local file there (file:///home/user/whatever.html) and it works as a regular page from the net. Plus, once I set that homepage under show home button, I can disable the home button again and the page still works! Until today, I was running lighttpd on my system to serve that page locally and I had set it as a page for newtab with new tab redirect. Now I can remove them both :)

I tried this, but setting the homepage to file:///Users/user/source/startpage/index.html won't do it on MacOS. :/

pitsi · 2024-09-25T09:41:25Z

I just tried in on a... quite fresh installation (3 months old) of brave I have on my laptop and it works.
Are you sure you do not have any typos, or that the path is correct or that you have also changed the new tab to show the homepage (it is at the bottom of brave://settings/getStarted).

Also, does it work with online urls like this?
https://instant.unsplash.com/

Debian unstable x64 and brave 1.70.x.

raiden-e · 2024-09-27T13:22:27Z

I copied the link from the search bar, so I figure it's correct. I might add, that it DOES work when starting Brave. However, opening a new tab will open the dashboard, instead of the HTML-URL. The setting "New tab page shows" is set to "Homepage". So extra odd.
How about you?

pitsi · 2024-09-27T15:24:57Z

As I said above, do you have set brave to show the homepage on the new tab?

raiden-e · 2024-09-27T16:40:43Z

Yes :)

pitsi · 2024-09-27T17:01:08Z

No idea then. Here is how I have set mine. The "show home button toggle" was enabled so as to show the options below it. I have it disabled otherwise.

rebron added feature/new-tab feature/settings priority/P4 Planned work. We expect to get to it "soon". labels Jan 17, 2019

rebron mentioned this issue Jan 17, 2019

create Get Started section in settings #960

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rebron added the browser-laptop-parity label Jan 17, 2019

rebron added priority/P3 The next thing for us to work on. It'll ride the trains. and removed priority/P4 Planned work. We expect to get to it "soon". labels Jan 18, 2019

rebron added the design A design change, especially one which needs input from the design team label Jan 24, 2019

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Dashboard on new tab page should be customizable #353

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Add New tab page options to settings brave/brave-core#6879

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Hide NTP dashboard settings when blankpage option is used brave/brave-core#6995

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