I use nightTab for that. It allows me to have collapsible categories, set custom color for each item, etc. Additionally I can export/import existing configurations.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nighttab/hdpcadigj...
Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
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#42Never thought of this until I read this thread and now this is going to be my next fun hobby project for myself. Thank you!
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#43You can check out mine, Yet Another Speed Dial, on GitHub! It's a web extension in vanilla JS:
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#44Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.
Yeah, I have never desired anything but about:blank.
But I seldom see even that, because instead of opening a tab and then typing in a URL or query, I’ll type in the URL or query and press Alt+Enter which opens that URL or query in a new tab.
And even in Firefox’s Private Browsing windows, I have this in my userContent.css so that I get a blank page there too (I started doing this when they put an ad for their VPN service, but then like Haman of old scorned to kill just .vpn-promo):
@-moz-document url("about:privatebrowsing") {
body {
display: none !important;
}
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#45Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.
Empty tab, with Firefox containers that automatically capture all google searches and open them in new tabs. That's what I have set up on my personal laptop.
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#46Just to contribute to the general discussion, I use Bookmarks Home add-on for firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmarkshome...). It turns your bookmarks into a homepage. You can customize which bookmarks folders appear and tweak the css. You can also save the page to html and turn off or remove the add-on if you like.
It does not include widget support though, so it doesn't address all of the issues mentioned in the original post.
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#47I have my own system (https://domovik.app/, https://github.com/domovikapp/), which displays shared reading lists and remote tabs/bookmarks from all my browsers. It does not integrate other data sources, but I can quickly access those with the bookmark bar.
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#48Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.
For me I have 3 variations. Blank page, some search landing page, or my.yahoo.com, thought the last one I am moving away from as less sites have RSS feeds.
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#49My start page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0gwRtD2pVw
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#50Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.
I, too, rely on a completely blank tab. I've never seen a need for a "start" page. The context when I open a browser changes almost every time; I never follow a routine.
It's also yet another thing to set up again when you reinstall your OS. I do that not infrequently as it's faster than periodically uninstalling everything from the past year, like libraries, apt packages for one time needs, ect. A full refresh gets rid of even the stickiest configs that sometimes even purge and autoremove can't get at.
I've started to find that what's even better than a fully tricked out installation that's heavily customized, is an minimal installation with basic usability features you can install in 20 minutes.