Firefox New Tab Need a KingYou Voted us Kings
So, let’s have a quick summary on what happened since NTK was officially launched (9½ week ago but who’s counting).
1- There are just about 33,400 results in Google mentioning NTK, including some heavy caliber tech blogs
2- 36,000 users downloaded it (that’s ~540 each day, and growing)
3- NTK is ranked #6 in Mozilla’s favorites under tabs section
4- Lebron went on an early vacation. again. god.
but now for the important stuff – what the people had to say:
A lot of Linux freaks, freaked out on us for be incompat. well, we got this fixed with a little help from a volunteering user. cheers, amigo.
Same goes for Mac. now we’re Mac oriented.
Almost all comments (not complaints – comments) included the expression “customize my own”. Here’s a real giant NTK leap: almost everything in your NewTabKing dashboard is customizable. You can choose your background image (or choose not to have one at all). You can pick your own application shortcuts. You can select the number of results that you get in your “Most Used Website” and in “Recently Closed Tabs”. View your “black listed” sites, and hand-pick some of them back to life. You can even set your own title. My title says something nasty about a huge company that starts with a “G” but that’s just my secret revenge.
Plus, we’ve added some other neat stuff, like:
Suggested sites – lets you see sites that are similar to the ones you’re usually visiting. Hey, perhaps you’ll find hidden treasures in the suggested sites list.
Auto-completion in your search bar – You know FireFox? same idea. only bigger.
Shorter loading time – No, I’m saying this for REAL. Try it yourself.
So where are all these improvements? Good question. We are waiting for the Mozilla testing crew to approve our new version 2, which is currently only available in their testing queue
Truth is, we didn’t think it would take that long… but guess what – you can help! If you download, try it, and post a comment in our mozilla add-ons section, they say it quickens the process. Well, if you feel like it. no pressure.
We’ve gone a few miles since the April 9th release, but as far as we’re concerned the journey has just begun. We hope NewTabKing will become the best interface for new born tabs around the globe.
- Adam and Eddie
This extension is ALMOST perfect to me. The one thing that really bothers me is that in the list of “Most Used Websites,” it doesn’t show the most used PAGE, but the root of the most shown site. So even if I go to a specific page 50 times, and the root once, it shows the root by default. I’d love to have an option to weigh sub-pages over the site homepages.
Mark A.
26 Jul 09 at 3:56 pm
Hi Mark,
Thank for your comment.
We actually had this when we just started but after a while we realized that ordering the visited pages by frequency is not such a good experience. Imagine you’re visiting CNN.com, Facebook, and YouTube regularly – each time viewing a different article, friend post, or movie. What you’ll get after a while is a flat list of visited pages (each represented with its unique URL – having a frequency of 1 or 2 visits) with nothing to cluster them into groups. Very soon, you’ll start looking for these sites’ homepages to enable you to perform a new ’search’.
What we do have for addressing this issue is a ‘details’ icon on each website entry in the “most uses websites” section. When clicking it – you get a drill down of specific addresses under the domain that we display.
Please let me know if you find this a satisfactory solution. Of course, I’ll be more than happy to listen to any suggestions that you might have on a different display method.
Thanks again
-Eddie
Eddy
27 Jul 09 at 12:20 am
Thanks for the response!
I guess I’m just used to the way Chrome did it. I found the pages they gave me really were the specific drilled-down pages I visited regularly. I.e. when I visit the web forums I follow, I always want to enter through the User Control Panel and check on my bookmarked threads. I don’t want to start at the index of the forums which is what happens now.
Writing this out it sounds like a ridiculous complaint, but the problem with “details” icon is having to click twice when I’m used to it working with just a single click.
While your approach is at least logical, one flaw/bug/issue I’ve noticed is that it ranks the “most visited websites” by the number of visits to the root page. So in my case, Google News is ranked at the top, but the forums I frequent are near the bottom of the list, in danger of being knocked-off, because I never go to the index. This is despite that the control panel sub-page has 10 as many hits as any other page I visit regularly.
Mark A.
28 Jul 09 at 8:08 pm
I neglected to mention the most important part. All that said, setting the “Most used websites” section to show only bookmarks pretty much completely solves my issue. It’s not QUITE as automated, but bookmarking those specific sub-pages I want a single time is hardly any effort.
Thanks.
Mark A.
28 Jul 09 at 8:44 pm
Hi Adam and Eddie,
How can I get it? Is there an option somewhere I should check? Having a notepad is an awesome feature, I’d kill for it 
Please tell me how to get it, I’m begging here! 
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you wrote a very cool add-on, congrats! Add me to the list of fans
On the latest screenshot on Mozilla site I saw the notepad section but in my NTK 2.0.6b there’s no such thing
Iren
23 Sep 09 at 5:03 am