Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

Re:Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page? by Farow on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:05AM (#29415104)

I personally aim for a startpage that loads instantly and since browsers no longer let you use a local html file as one, I've made an extension that registers a custom new tab page.

I don't use any frameworks since it's a pretty simple page, essentially just groups of links. If you need to, you can always use something like fetch to load external resources.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page? by Ma8ee on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:45AM (#29415411)

I'm using a local html file as a start page in Safari right now, and used the same file on Windows (Firefox) just a few months ago.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page? by Farow on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:58AM (#29415531)

I believe Firefox and Chrome do not allow you to set a local html file as a new tab page. You can set it as a home page but then you need to manually navigate to it after creating a new tab.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page? by atsaloli on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:17AM (#29415703)

I use Chrome. I build a static HTML file and have set a New Tab page policy[1] in my paid Google Workspace[2] admin console to use this static HTML file via a file:// URL.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/2657289#zippy=%2C...

[2] https://workspace.google.com/

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page? by Ma8ee on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:21AM (#29415746)

Now I had to try. I can make Firefox to open my Startpage whenever I open a new window, but not for each new tab. Chrome only as the first window after I start the browser. (MacOS)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page? by m8QBzQeVYrOgGSN on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:26AM (#29415252)

Would you mind sharing a link to your extension?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page? by Farow on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:53AM (#29415489)

https://github.com/Farow/startpage

[ Parent | on HN ]