Mue

Mue is a fast, open and free-to-use browser extension that gives a new, fresh and customizable tab page to most modern browsers

Table of contents

• Screenshot
• Features
• Planned Features
• Installation
  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Chromium
  • Opera/Other
• Contributing
  • Requirements
  • Starting
  • Building
• Credits
  • Maintainers
  • Contributors
  • Translators
    • Other

Screenshot

May be updated in the future

Features

• Fast and free
• Supports multiple browsers
• Actively developed and open source
• Automatically updating API (no tracking) with new photos, quotes and offline mode
• Search bar
• Settings - enable/disable various features and customise parts of Mue
• Update modal, copy button and more!
• Marketplace - download custom photo packs, quote packs, preset settings and themes made by the community!

Installation

A demo of the tab can be found here

Chrome

Chrome Web Store

Firefox

Firefox Add-ons

Edge (Chromium)

Microsoft Edge Addons

Opera/Other

GitHub Releases

Development

Requirements

1. Git
2. Node.JS
3. A suitable browser

Starting

1. Clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/mue/mue.git
2. Run yarn or npm i to install all needed dependencies
3. Run yarn start or npm start to start testing
4. Code your heart out! (See the sections below for how to build the extension)

Building

Chrome/Edge (Chromium) (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"
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"
3. Copy background-opera.js in the "manifest" folder to "build"
4. Visit about://extensions in Opera
5. Click Load unpacked extension... (Make sure Developer Mode is on)
6. Go to the directory containing Mue and click ok
7. Enjoy your new tab!

Firefox (Click to expand)

1. yarn run build or npm run build
2. Rename manifest-firefox.json in the "manfiest" folder to manifest.json in "build"
3. Visit about:debugging#addons in Firefox
4. Click Load Temporary Add-on
5. Go to the directory containing Mue and click on the manifest.json
6. 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. yarn run build or npm run build
2. Open the index.html in your browser
3. Enjoy your new tab!

Credits

Maintainers

David Ralph (ohlookitsderpy) - Founder, Lead development, Photographer
Alex Sparkes - Name, Lead design, Photographer

Contributors

Wessel Tip - Development
Isaac (Eartharoid) - QA, Development, Photographer

Translators

English - David Ralph (ohlookitsderpy) & Alex Sparkes Dutch - Wessel Tip French - Alex Sparkes Norwegian - Anders

Other

Pexels - Stock photos used for offline mode Opera Forum - Portions of code to add Opera support Google Fonts - Lexend Deca font

And many thanks to Highholding, Noa Shapira, Roee Lupo, Jeroen, Glasvegas, Anders, Oded Shapira, Jacob Tyrrell and Nikka Lai for letting us use their wonderful photographs