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Reaching your site faster than light

Eddie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:23:49 +0000

In previous posts we stressed how important we see NTK in becoming the fastest route to your requested sites. In version 2.1.2, which became public a few days ago we added two features to quicken your accessibility to your destination:

1. Typing in the site’s ranking

Note that we’ve numbered the sites you visit most by order from most visited and down (1 to 25 by default). This numeration stands for something we thought would be practical, which is getting you your desired site by simply typing its number and then hitting ‘enter’.

For example, in this case clicking 5 (which stands for the #5 site on my list – Facebook) and then hitting the ‘enter’ key will get me straight to www.facebook.com

Note that this saves me getting to Google’s results page and then selecting the 1^st result there. This also saves me the burden of moving my mouse and enables me a full “keyboard navigation” experience when attempting to reach a website.
2. Popular Domains’ shortcuts

Some sites are so popular that it’s almost a drag to type in their address each time we want to get there.

So, in order to quicken your way to your route we’ve put in some of the most popular domain with their abbreviation. For example, instead of typing www.youtube.com or just youtube (that would get you to Google’s result page and then you’d need to select the first result…) we offer the site after just typing ‘yo’. Again – clicking ‘enter’ at this point would simply launch youtube.com, skipping the redundant result page.

Note, that youtube (using this example) doesn’t need to be on your main list. We’ll offer it to you anyway.

If you feel like removing or adding you own site shortcuts – that is also possible. Simply click New Tab King’s option menu and have fun with the “Search Shortcuts” tab.

Hope you find these features useful!

Which New Tab King for Firefox theme are you? (introducing NTK 2.1.0)

admin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:43:56 +0000

We’re super excited about launching our latest themed-based release (2.1.0)

Screenshots attached here – which one is YOU?

Tekzilla Daily: Patrick Norton gets excited about New Tab King for Firefox

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:19:51 +0000

Patrick – appreciate the terrific review. We’d be honored to have you on the front page of

What’s New in New Tab King 2.0.3 for Firefox?

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:59:27 +0000

Tons of stuff. Give us a try at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/10828#version-2.0.3

* Autocomplete for searches

* Relevant suggested sites

* Configurations for your shortcuts and view

Boss is here, everyone look busy

Eddie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:43:26 +0000

Ever doze off during work and find yourself googling instead of being productive? and how about your superior taking over your seat and working on your Firefox screen? Could be embaressing, especially if he found out you were surfing that site…

No worries, amigo. At New Tab King every site can be erased and what appears as a site in your history won’t be revealed to a soul.

Also, a little bird at NTK told me that soon there will be a presentation mode, displaying IVY league sites so that when opeing a new tab everyone will think you’re a big shot, surfing first class sites.

We told you it’s addictive.

NTK team