How do I set my local HTML page as a homepage? ()Īnd just in case that page ever goes away, here are the steps spelled out (and for my own future reference):

Check it out and follow those steps if you too want to use a local file as your new tab home page. And there used to be extensions which could provide this missing feature, but they’ve been made useless with recent Firefox updates (v72 near the end of 2019) so that’s no longer an option.Īfter much searching, I found this Mozilla Firefox Support page describing the how to make this work. We can set it as the default home page, right in Options > Home screen, but that only applies to when Firefox first starts up and to new windows. Firefox, though, does not love it, out of the box.įor security reasons, I’m sure, the browser doesn’t allow users to set a local file of any sort as the home page for new tabs. I love it and would hate to live without it. It’s light and loads fast and has all of the links I use on a regular basis.

I have my own hand-coded HTML file I use as my home page in all of my browsers.

Mozilla firefox start page link