Customize your Start Page and New Tab page with live backgrounds, shortcuts and widgets; like weather, wallpapers and much more!
FEATURES:
★ Fully customizable start page
★ Create many pages to group shortcuts and widgets
★ Use HEX color codes for custom backgrounds
★ Dozens of HD background images
★ Upload your own custom backgrounds
★ Animated and Interactive backgrounds
★ Dark Mode
★ Add Widgets, like weather, notes, calculator, and much more!
★ Add & Move Shortcuts anywhere on the page
★ Select from a shortcut library, including over 100+ popular sites
★ Customize the shortcut icons by choosing a library of icons and colors
★ Search engine customization (Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia...)
★ Open links or search results in new tabs
★ Hide shortcuts or the search box (for the minimalist)
★ Quick access to your email provider!
★ NEW ★ Organize with Folders!
"It's like a desktop experience for your browser!" – Anonymous
You can follow our updates here:
https://squarestartpage.com/changelog
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If you have a feature request, please feel free to send us a feedback message via the settings window, we look forward to improving your experience.
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This extension will replace your new tab with a customized Start Page and will open your start page when the browser is launched (you can customize these options in settings)
You can remove or disable the extension at any time.
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CHANGELOG: (shows most recent changes)
## [6.1.0] - 2021-05-25
### Added
* Widgets now have the ability to be expanded into more details (overlays)
* Added a new weather overlay (and design with new icons) when clicking on weather widgets
* Added new shortcut widgets, the ability to click shortcut-like widgets to expand into overlays
* Added a shortcut widget for weather, directions and locations
* Added helpful guides for new users
### Changed
* Redesigned search-only page with 2 rows of perfectly aligned widgets (shorcuts) and weather above search box
* Improved performance for shortcuts, widgets and folders
* Updated storage to only store what is needed for user preference (reducing storage usage)
* Reduced shortcut font size for more legibility for all device sizes
* Reduced code size by removing older unused components and libraries
* Minor design changes to make things clear and simple
### Fixed
* Fixed issue when removing pages, it didn't remove all its widgets from storage
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## [6.0.0] - 2021-05-20
### Added
* New folder widget with number of items in folder
* Added confirmation on removing folder with contents
* Added many color options for folders
* Shortcuts can be dragged into folders
* Shortcuts now have "move to page" edit option to remove from folder
* Shortcuts inside folders can be dragged to position allowing user to sort
* Added 3 more shortcut icons
* Added firefox internal links "about:" to be allowed in shortcuts
* Added internal links for chrome extensions, settings, bookmarks, passwords and history to shortcut library
### Changed
* Email menu item now underlines and acts like a link rather than a button
* Improved the formatting of the shortcut edit options
* Improved shortcut visiblity on light/dark mode backgrounds
* Improved scrollbars for light/darkmode
* Removed allow_scroll beta option and enabled scroll for all users
### Fixed
* Fixed syncing email settings form extension storage to local (low impact)
* Fixed an issue where widget data was being duplicated in two locations
* Fixed input fields autofill (removing chromes try to autofill some fields)
* Fixed issue where you could no longer change the page default
* Fixed issue when updates are released, the new tab (NTP) is no longer reverted back to default upon reload
* Fixed UI issue on small screens when scrolling on settings -> about were scroll couldnt reach the end
* Fixed scrollbar theming on Firefox
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## [5.2.0] - 2021-05-13
### Added
* Added new email quick link at top menu
* Added new email provider selection and add your own email
* Added just an email icon if no email text (in custom) is setup
* Added new "Hide email" in general settings
* Added a loader animation for images/videos with click ability to refresh list
* Added network connection check will display "No Internet Connection"
* Search-only page now has the ability to change default search engine in settings
### Changed
* Removed FAQ tab in settings since there's an online page for it now
* Updated and reformatted the about section to be more clear
* Ability to remove search widget on edit menu
* Weather widget moved to 7pm instead of 5pm to show night images
* Reduced SquarePage logo size
* Minor format, alignments and design tweaks
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You can follow our updates here:
https://squarestartpage.com/changelog
By adding this extension, you agree to our privacy policy available at https://squarestartpage.com/privacy
By adding this extension, you agree to our terms of service available at https://squarestartpage.com/terms
If you have questions or feedback, you can contact us here
https://squarestartpage.com/contact
If you need help removing or resetting the Start Page, follow these steps:
https://squarestartpage.com/uninstall
