[ams6110]

And why can't I have my home page as my new tab page?

I don't want any of that "top sites" BS on a new tab, I want the local HTML file that I created as my home page. Why not allow it for new tabs?

[frio]

Given the existence of things like momentum (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/momentumdash/), I'd suggest maybe looking into packaging your HTML page into a web extension :).

[anotherevan]

New Tab Override should do the trick for you. I agree that it should be a built in though.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-overr...

[dorgo]

I'm cursing for about a year about this. I spent days searching for workarounds and stopped short of hacking into firefox. Maybe I should just install firefox 50 and disable updates.

[ams6110]

Only thing I've found is that hitting ALT-Home keys in the new tab will load the home page. But it's one of those tiny repeated annoyances that I'd love to avoid.

[davvolun]

I can't really comment fairly here as I've gotten used to Chrome for the last 2+ years, but is there really not an extension in Firefox for this, even if it's not natively supported? Seems surprising to me.

[ams6110]

Yes there are, but for some reason using a local file is a problem. Something about the ability of WebExtension to access a local file. Probably sensible, but in this case annoying.