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Comment by bizzleDawg | Hacker News Reader

I did try "momentum" as a new tab for a while, but I've always found these kinds of things distracting - when you hit ctrl+T I'm not (and I suspect most are not) looking for inspiration, but I'm looking to find something. Maybe I'm alone in this view?

If anything, I'd be tempted to make a completely blank new tab page - for me that would avoid the normal routine of seeing all my favourite favicons

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Not sure which browser you use, but I only open new tabs "on demand". This is in Conkeror, where the command `find-url-new-buffer` (bound to `C-u g`) will ask for a URL then open the new tab on that URL. Perhaps there are options or addons to do this in other browsers?

This way I can have a CI dashboard as my homepage, but I only see it when I switch to it explicitly or when I close the last of my other tabs. Also, Conkeror doesn't have actual "tabs" in its UI: like Emacs, the open tabs ("buffers") are only listed after running the `switch-to-buffer` command (`C-x b`); so there's less distraction there too.

I find it hard to believe that tech-savvy people click on something on a new tab page instead of doing Ctrl+T -> first two letters -> enter.

Since there's a whole lot of space to fill in while doing that, it might as well show you a pretty picture and some task or something.

I would consider a completely white page as a waste of screen estate.

Spliting hairs here, but it's not about clicking something, it's about changing what those first 2 letters typed are.

Call me a minimalist (or whatever else you'd like), but "might as well" isn't a good enough reason to add distractions for me.

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