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A custom new tab for Firefox

Hoome replaces the Firefox new tab page with your shortcuts, folders and the background you choose. It installs from Firefox Add-ons, from Firefox 140 on. A few Chrome features do not exist there, and this page says which.

Open Firefox Add-ons

Hoome in a browser window: the clock, the search bar, the shortcuts and the folders.
Install store
Firefox Add-ons
Minimum version
Firefox 140
Account
None for the free version
Store listing
Public

Install Hoome on Firefox, step by step

  1. Open the Hoome listing on Firefox Add-ons (addons.mozilla.org) with the button above, then click “Add to Firefox”.

  2. Firefox shows the permissions the extension asks for and what it declares collecting as data, a declaration required since Firefox 140. Read them, then confirm with “Add”.

  3. Open a new tab. Firefox may ask you to confirm that the extension changed the page shown when you open a new tab: keep the change. Restoring the settings turns the extension off.

  4. No bar is added at the bottom of the page: Firefox puts none under an extension page. To get the Firefox page back, turn Hoome off in “Extensions and Themes” (about:addons).

What Hoome brings to Firefox

  • A folder zoomed open above the page: the full grid of its shortcuts, with the folder name and the rest of the page dimmed behind.

    Folders, the way a phone does them

    A preview tile shows 4 or 9 icons. One click and it zooms open on the full grid. Work tools on one side, reading on the other, and the page stays short.

  • Instant search: a few letters typed in the bar, and the list of matching shortcuts appears under it, ahead of the search engine suggestions.

    Type three letters, the site is there

    The bar filters your shortcuts as you type, and switches to your browser’s search engine when what you want is not filed with you. Enter opens the first result, Shift and Enter force a web search.

  • Close up on the three widgets: the five day forecast for the chosen town, a task list and a quick note.

    The weather, your tasks, your notes

    Three free widgets, off by default, that you switch on one at a time. The five day forecast asks for no account and no key, only the name of your town. Tasks and notes stay in your browser, unless you choose to sync them.

What works on Firefox, and what does not

  • Shortcuts, folders, widgets, backgrounds

    Yes

    The rest is identical to Chrome: folders, Essentials, layouts, widgets, bookmark import and backgrounds drawn by code, animated ones included.

  • The Hoome account

    Yes

    Firefox does not let a website talk to an extension the way Chrome does: Hoome uses a small script that runs only on hoome.dev. Nothing changes for you: sign in with Google or an email address, then the trial and Premium.

  • Sync through the Mozilla account

    Good to know

    It is free, goes through your Mozilla account and links your Firefox computers to each other. It does not link Firefox to Chrome, which syncs through Google. The Hoome account does link the two: receiving its copy is free, saving one is reserved for Premium.

  • Processor and memory

    No

    Firefox does not give an extension the processor load or the memory load. Those two Premium widgets therefore do not exist on Firefox: Hoome hides them, on the page and in the settings.

  • History, downloads, bookmarks

    No

    Firefox has no chrome:// addresses and forbids an extension from opening its internal pages, about:downloads included. The quick access buttons and their setting are therefore not shown.

  • Most visited sites

    No

    The Firefox package does not ask for the permission that supplies this list, so it is not offered in the add-shortcut window. The catalog of popular sites is there, though.

Firefox themes

Firefox is the browser where Hoome themes are published: six so far on Firefox Add-ons, the Sapphire, Neon and Emerald nebulae since October 31, 2026, then Northern Lights, Black Panther and Malachite since November 1. Firefox lets a theme move, which Chrome does not: each animated background has a classic listing and an animated one, where the pattern drifts slowly behind the tabs and the address bar. More backgrounds will follow, and the themes gallery shows the ones that are online.

See the themes gallery See what Hoome does

Guides on the blog

Frequently asked questions

Firefox asks me to confirm the page change: what should I choose?

Keep the change. Firefox asks for this confirmation when an extension takes over the new tab page, and the opposite choice turns the extension off. To get the Firefox page back someday, turn Hoome off in “Extensions and Themes”: nothing is erased.

Why are some widgets and buttons missing on Firefox?

Because Firefox does not offer an extension what they would need: the processor and memory load on one side, opening its internal pages on the other. Hoome would rather hide these items than show a button that fails when clicked.

Can I bring my Chrome shortcuts into Firefox?

Not through browser sync, which stops at each account. Two ways: a JSON export made in Chrome and opened in Firefox, or the Hoome account copy, which Premium saves from Chrome and which Firefox receives for free.

Which version of Firefox do I need?

Firefox 140 or later, the first version to understand the data collection declaration Hoome supplies.

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