I've created this extension as I always felt that other browsers had better new tab views than Firefox. I wanted to have a simple and minimalistic new tab view that would allow me to organize my bookmarks into categories. This is something that I use daily across different devices so there's no reason to be worried that this extension will no longer be supported.
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- Organize bookmarks into categories
- Add any website as a bookmark
- Synchronization between devices
- Different built-in themes (light and dark) and with option to create custom ones
- Very customizable
- Minimalistic
- Open-source
- Completely free to use
I strongly encourage to contribute to development of Simple Start extension. Bugs reports and new features suggestions can be made by creating a new issue - with appropriate title and description please.
To test it locally, you need to follow this steps:
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Make sure you have
yarninstalled on your machine. -
Run
yarn installin the root of the extension. -
To start in development mode (with watcher aka "auto-refresh"), run
yarn devin the root of the extension.- When developing for Chrome you need to run
BROWSER=chrome yarn devinstead.
- When developing for Chrome you need to run
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Add the extension to your Firefox, by going to
about:debuggingpage,This Firefoxtab and loading Simple Start as a temporary add-on by choosing thedist/manifest.jsonfile. -
Run
yarn buildto create a "production" build orBROWSER=chrome yarn buildfor Chrome. Keep in mind that it may be required to delete thedistfolder before running the build command for a different browser.
Simple Start uses Besticon to provide users with correct icons for each and every website. It's an open-source favicon service, written in Go. It's hosted on Fly.io from docker image, and with both the Prometheus metrics and the HTML pages disabled via the environment variables so no metrics are collected.
Simple Start extension is open-source project licensed under the GLP-3.0 license.