Simple Start

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.

first version	first and latest redesign

🔑 Key features:

• 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

🤝 Contribution:

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:

• This extension is built with the WXT framework.

• Make sure you have npm installed on your machine.

• Run npm install in the root of the extension.

• To start in development mode, run npm run dev in the root of the extension (npm run dev:chrome for Chrome).

  • In development mode, WXT launches a temporary/restricted browser profile with the extension loaded and handles reloads automatically when files change.

• If needed, you can still load the extension manually in Firefox via about:debugging → This Firefox by choosing dist/manifest.json.

• Run npm run build to create a Firefox production build or npm run build:chrome for Chrome. Keep in mind that it may be required to delete the dist folder before running the build command for a different browser.

📦 Favicon Service

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.

📝 License:

Simple Start extension is open-source project licensed under the GLP-3.0 license.