Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by jakke » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox
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Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by milankragujevic » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:33 PM UTC

Excellent! Much better than what I made for personal use, and it's great that you open sourced it. I'll set it up on my local web server and start using it.

Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by jakke » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:37 PM UTC

milankragujevic wrote: post #2

Excellent! Much better than what I made for personal use, and it's great that you open sourced it. I'll set it up on my local web server and start using it.

Thanks for the feedback! I've had a few prototypes along the years but this was actually something that I figured someone would be interested in. I'll continue to develop this and add customizable user settings etc when I have time

Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by explorigin » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:44 PM UTC

Looks really nice.

Out of curiosity, why did you use Angular? For a simple, non-interactive page Angular seems like overkill.

Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by milankragujevic » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:44 PM UTC

jakke wrote: post #3

milankragujevic wrote: post #2

Excellent! Much better than what I made for personal use, and it's great that you open sourced it. I'll set it up on my local web server and start using it.

Thanks for the feedback! I've had a few prototypes along the years but this was actually something that I figured someone would be interested in. I'll continue to develop this and add customizable user settings etc when I have time

I only have an issue where it's not displaying the temperature. I set the place to Kostolac in the controller and the view, and language to en, and it's just not displaying the temperature. I'm not familiar with Angular so I don't know how to fix it.

Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by skykooler » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

An issue I've found is that the URL stays in the address bar. This seems to be caused by Angular adding "#/" to the page URL after it is loaded - any idea how to fix this?

Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by jakke » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

skykooler wrote: post #6

An issue I've found is that the URL stays in the address bar. This seems to be caused by Angular adding "#/" to the page URL after it is loaded - any idea how to fix this?

Be sure to link it to the #/ address if you're using the plugin. I had the same problem, this is because the router is redirecting all to the #/-address.

Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by jakke » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:48 PM UTC

explorigin wrote: post #4

Looks really nice. Out of curiosity, why did you use Angular? For a simple, non-interactive page Angular seems like overkill.

Thanks! Yeah, you're right. I just love angular and was testing how I'll get it to work with RequireJs, which sort of ended up in this

Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by tiggr » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:53 PM UTC

Interesting to see the image get garbled in Safari 8.0.3.

Re: Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox

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Post by javamonn » Thu, Mar 12, 2015, 3:57 PM UTC

jakke wrote: post #7

skykooler wrote: post #6

An issue I've found is that the URL stays in the address bar. This seems to be caused by Angular adding "#/" to the page URL after it is loaded - any idea how to fix this?

Be sure to link it to the #/ address if you're using the plugin. I had the same problem, this is because the router is redirecting all to the #/-address.

I haven't looked at the app, but if he enables html5 mode you can drop the hash suffix on urls.

https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/$location