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benbasson / newtabhomepage

Firefox Extension - Loads your homepage when you open a new tab.
http://www.basson.at/firefox-addons/newtabhomepage
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Add-on disabled/withdrawn by Mozilla Add-ons site #43

Closed benbasson closed 3 years ago

benbasson commented 3 years ago

I've just been informed that this add-on has now been disabled because it is in breach of Mozilla policy, resulting from an ad-hoc add-on review. Here's the direct statement from the reviewer:

Add-ons must not load or redirect to a remote new tab page. The new tab page must be contained within the add-on.

Seeing as that's the only thing this add-on does, and has ever done, and is in both the name and description, I am a little surprised that after 17 years (and hundreds of thousands of users) someone has decided the behaviour isn't acceptable.

I guess this is now formally dead in the water.

Feel free to complain to Mozilla directly if you want this resolved, I am not going to spend my time doing so, however if you get a positive outcome I'm happy to keep this add-on going.

benbasson commented 3 years ago

See https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/1321

benbasson commented 3 years ago

They have now reinstated the add-on after reviewing this situation.