Customize your Start Page and New Tab page with live backgrounds, shortcuts and widgets; like weather, wallpapers and much more!
This extension changes your new tab and has a default search of Yahoo. Note: we do not change your default search provider. The search box on the new tab page uses Yahoo search.
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
★ Open links or search results in new tabs
★ Hide shortcuts or the search box (for the minimalist)
★ Quick access to your email provider!
★ NEW ★ Includes Backup and Restore
"It's like a desktop experience for your browser!" – Anonymous
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You can remove or disable the extension at any time.
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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
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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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Disclosure: We provide Yahoo search by default as one of our affiliate providers.
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You can follow our updates here:
https://squarestartpage.com/changelog
CHANGELOG: (shows most recent changes)
## [6.2.3] - 2022-05-29
### Fixed
* Fixed a few minor storage issues
* Fixed a few settings saving issues
## [6.2.2] - 2022-05-22
### Added
* Feature for backup and restore
### Fixed
* Restored user data back to local storage since Chrome Storage has incredible low limits
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## [6.2.0] - 2022-05-22
### Added
* Updated Storage to use Chrome Sync (across user devices)
Latest reviews
- (2023-09-09) Danis: I CANT DRAG SHOURCUT IN FOLDER!?
- (2023-09-01) Marko Milojkovic: New tab doesn't focus on the address bar, its supper annoying
- (2023-07-11) Mark P: every time you add something .. the customization window closes.. its annoying as hell cant drag and drop shortcuts to folders - broken cant set weather - broken video wallpaper is amazing widgets could use work... more would be great. icon size change and shape change would be a bonus
- (2023-01-29) YuQian Zhao: 搜索栏为什么无法像其他widget那样编辑,我想将搜索引擎换成google
- (2022-08-20) Onur Korkmaz: It's really good, I would love to see a widget to add pictures (PNG Supported) and resize/ relocate however we like. This simple addon can create a lot of personalization options.
- (2022-05-30) Kurt Biesemans: I love this extension!!! I use it every day. With the latest version some (little) issue came up but these we quickly and professionally solved by Tim. Much appreciated!
- (2022-05-28) Patrick Forbes: Great app and customer service. Lost my home page, and they sent complete backup to me by email. Did you people whining about the data loss bother to contact them?
- (2022-05-26) Guido Schmitter: The new backup function works really well! Good job! I'm excited to see what's next! The support was excellent!
- (2022-05-25) V V: Don't trust this extension, it will just delete all your progress and take away features. What's the point? Ridiculous
- (2022-05-23) Tommy Geoco: Loved this at first, used it as my 1-man business dashboard for all of my critical shortcuts to my different tech and marketing stacks. Came back one day to see the entire dashboard had been cleared and defaulted back to the original out-of-the-box view. Can't have that happen. Huge productivity loss.
- (2022-05-23) Rulesless: This morning’s update erased all the settings and then the links saved on the extension. As if that were not enough now it's impossible decide which search engine use, preset is Google. The developers did not respond, I hoped throughout the day that they would release a downgrade, but nothing.
- (2022-05-23) Hunter Jefferson: Today's update makes this extension worthless. Not only did it delete all of my home page's customizations, you can no longer copy settings to other browsers and other computers.
- (2022-03-25) Adeganel: Could be better
- (2022-03-25) Isabel Perry: Honestly, it's a nice extension, but it's missing some features which I feel like it should have. For example, I could place the weather widget, and it looks nice & is useful, but let's say I don't want a background on the widget, what I'd expect was for a extension such as this to allow me to turn off a widgets background, or customize it in some other way, but I cannot. I also hate the settings button at the top, I'd rather be able to turn it off & use a shortcut like ctrl + shift + l or something to access to setting, or at least be able to move and resize the settings button like everything else. If there are changes such as described made, then I'll 100% use this extension again in the future.
- (2022-02-23) Tamás Jakab: Very good, but it has shortcomings. It would be nice to have a button or option to add the open tabs to a specific workspace. If someone wants to switch to this from another similar app and has a lot of saved stuff, it makes it harder. That's how I went ...
- (2022-02-02) K Wong: definitely a game changer that enhance my chrome dramatically
- (2022-01-01) Seamus Slater: I was looking for simple, neat and fast home page extension. SquarePage is the best ever!!!
- (2021-12-27) Chan Nicole: very useful extension i was recovery my computer by no choice with limited time (so i forgot to to backup T_T) and once I dl Chrome, I realized i didn't do anything about Chrome so i tried to find out which extension i've used before luckily, I found it, it makes me feel safe again
- (2021-06-18) Lone Tester: I have used so many different start/home page extensions but this is by far the best. I combination of all the right options, simple, clean, highly efficient page that just makes everything right there!
- (2021-05-11) Fred Sexton: Simple and Saves Time Took me like 3 minutes to install. Like that it's got options for customizing what widgets and how I want stuff displayed. The video background is neat plus too, gotten some comments about that. I've got Amazon and Google search bars here which saves me a fair amount of time.
- (2021-05-07) Thomas Reynolds: Blown away by the quality and features of this extension! Google should be ashamed by how inferior the default is compared to this. I'd give this 10 stars if I could.
- (2021-02-16) Oscar Ade Gunawan: its very nice, almost perfect. there is just one weakness. please make it load faster, make it works offline. and i suggest to add a bit more feature. for example, to make it focus on the search bar at startup, or to add the custom animation background, etc
- (2021-02-09) Sagar Naliyapara: Great new tab dashboard with lots of features. Best one I've seen!
- (2021-02-08) Admin G: One of the best start pages ive seen yet! Everything is customizable, even the search engine which most are not. The pages feature is awesome too!
- (2021-02-01) Erdal Yenigül: Best start page extension ever! You should try.
- (2021-01-26) Mahmoud Amira: Nice work
- (2020-09-30) Chris Harkey: Best new tab extension, by a mile. There are so many widgets and backgrounds to pick from. Nice work!
- (2020-09-23) Lotfio Lakehal: Very useful extension !
- (2020-08-21) April S: An improved way to use my new tab feature. I love the background customization and the saved bookmark functionality. It makes for a much better internet experience!
- (2020-08-21) Justin Simons: Nice and clean. I like the idea of using it as a way to manage bookmarks I need to keep top of mind.
- (2020-08-18) Conner Ring: SO much better than the default New Tab page. The animated backgrounds look amazing in fullscreen, and the shortcut customization/dark mode make for a very clean/minimal browsing experience.
- (2020-08-17) Bob Regular: Very simple and useful. I really love the animated backgrounds and quick google or amazon searching from my desktop.
- (2020-08-14) Matthew Cabral: Nice extension. Lots of options and features with some nice animated backgrounds.