1807866 - Allow the user to set the home page to a URL

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Homepage, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

From github: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7551.

Users would like to be able to have Firefox open a web page instead of the homescreen. This allows the user to get to a consistent page to start their browsing experience.

• How does this work with Top Sites and Collections or other content on the home screen?
• How should this behave when Firefox is swiped closed? Restore active tab or open home page?
• How should this behave when the OS kills Firefox in the background.
• How should this behave when the user selects quit from the menu when clearing data?
• Where should this setting be placed in the settings?
• Should there be a home button/menu item?
• If there is a button/menu item where should it live?

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

Change performed by the Move to Bugzilla add-on.

Comment 1

[science]

I would love for this feature to be considered further. It's such an old school feature, and basically let's advanced users "opt out" of the UX design streams for the home page. I just want a bunch of static links to sites I use on my home page. I can create a simple hosted web page to achieve this (since it seems no web browser UX designer from any company wants to allow me to do this). But without a UX option in the browser, I'm reduced to creating a home page link on android to my default page, which seems silly, to say the least. I hope a kind hearted developer who remembers why opting out of default home page UX is a "good thing" for open browsers will take pity and implement this simple feature. GH issue 7551 above has good UI designs.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

The answer to the questions in the initial imported post like "what does it do now if you swipe closed/have Firefox killed by the OS/the user selects quit/should there be a home button" is "what does it do now? Behave the same way, except instead of the homescreen use the user's page". That's the whole point of the feature.