etacarinaea/startpage - Githubissues

Quickly access your favourite websites whenever you open a new tab

Key Features

Easy customisation using a built-in configuration menu, or alternatively a JSON file
Keyboard controls
Customisable search function
Export/Import function to backup your config or to use the same one on multiple devices

example screenshot

Installation

Install the Firefox add-on or the Chrome add-on.

If you're using a different browser:
Download a release, download the zip of the latest version on GitHub, or just clone the repository. Your browser has to support the WebExtensions API or you'll have to download an older version, find a way to overwrite the newtab page of your browser and select index.html as the new one.

GitHub Pages Preview

The startpage is also hosted on GitHub Pages for demonstration purposes. You can set your newtab URL to that site if you like, but keep in mind that the version hosted there is an older one from the one currently available as a browser extension.

Usage

The config menu can be opened any time by clicking the gear icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen, or by writing -config into the search square.

The arrow keys can be used to navigate the squares: left and right will move to a different square and up and down will move between links in a square. The selected link can then be visited by pressing enter.

The tab key automatically selects the search field.

To use the keyboard controls the newtab page has to have focus. This unfortunately isn't the case when opening a new tab by default in most browsers, and I'm not aware of any workarounds, other than clicking inside the window or pressing tab until the page gets focus.