Mue

Fast, open and free-to-use new tab page for most modern browsers.

Features

• Fast and free
• Supports multiple browsers
• Actively developed and opensource
• Automatically updating API (with no tracking!) with new photos, quotes and offline mode
• Multiple language support
• Settings feature - enable/disable features!
• Search bar, update modal, copy button and more!

Mue has been recently rewritten with React and is missing the features that are crossed out

Installation

Chrome

Link: Chrome Web Store

Development: Read the Development section.

Firefox

Link: Firefox Add-ons

Development: Read the Development section.

Opera/Other

Link: GitHub Releases

Development/Other: Read the Development section.

Development

Requirements

1. Git (optional)
2. Node.js
3. A suitable browser

Starting

1. git clone https://github.com/muetab/mue (If you don't have Git just go to Clone or download and click Download ZIP)
2. Open a terminal and run these commands: (in the Mue directory)
3. yarn (or npm i)
4. yarn run all (or npm run all)
5. Start developing! (See the sections below for how to set up a developer copy of the extension.)

Building

This section is a work in progress, and doesn't include the manual edits you are required to do to get it working without errors. Once I find a method to do it automatically, I will update this section accordingly.

Chrome (Click to expand)

1. yarn run build (or npm run build)
2. Rename manifest-chrome.json in the "manfiest" folder to manifest.json in "build" (replace the one created by React)
3. Visit chrome://extensions in Chrome
4. Click Load unpacked (Make sure Developer Mode is on)
5. Go to the directory containing the built copy of Mue and click ok
6. Enjoy your new tab!

Opera (Click to expand)

1. yarn run build (or npm run build)
2. Rename manifest-opera.json in the "manfiest" folder to manifest.json in "build" (replace the one created by React)
3. Visit about://extensions in Opera
4. Click Load unpacked extension... (Make sure Developer Mode is on)
5. Go to the directory containing Mue and click ok
6. Enjoy your new tab!

Firefox (Click to expand)

Note: I'm currently trying to find a better method to do this, but this works for now.

1. yarn run build (or npm run build)
2. Rename manifest-firefox.json in the "manfiest" folder to manifest.json in "build" (replace the one created by React)
3. Move manifest/background-opera.js to build/background-opera.js
4. Visit about:debugging#addons in Firefox
5. Click Load Temporary Add-on
6. Go to the directory containing Mue and click on the manifest.json
7. Enjoy your new tab!

Other (Click to expand)

Note: To get the full new tab experience, set your browser to open the index.html on startup and tab open!

1. Open the index.html in your browser
2. Enjoy your new tab!

Screenshot

Will be updated if needed

Credits

Maintainers

ohlookitsderpy (lead dev)

TurboMarshmello (name idea, code contributions)

Other

Pexels - Stock photos used for offline mode

Opera Forum - Portions of code to add Opera support

Google Fonts - Lexend Deca font

Translations

ohlookitsderpy - English (Quotes and Messages)

Yanderella - Italian (Quotes and Messages)

Pepehound - Spanish (Quotes and Messages)

Candystick - Portuguese (Some Quotes)

PassTheWessel - Dutch (Messages)

Yanderella and ohlookitsderpy - French (Messages)

untocodes - Finnish and German (Messages)

dondish - Hebrew and Russian (Messages)

Roee Lupo (MrSheldon) - Arabic and Swedish (Messages)

Feel free to pull request with other translations!

and all the contributors <3

License

Code - BSD-3-Clause