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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
- 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!
Planned Features
Please see our roadmap
Installation
A demo of the tab can be found here
Chrome
Firefox
Edge (Chromium)
Microsoft Edge Addons Currently outdated, please use the Chrome Web Store version
Opera/Other
Development
Requirements
Starting
- Clone the repository using
git clone https://github.com/mue/mue.git
- Run
yarn
ornpm i
to install all needed dependencies - Run
yarn start
ornpm start
to start testing - Code your heart out! (See the sections below for how to build the extension)
Building
Chrome/Edge (Chromium) (Click to expand)
-
yarn run build
ornpm run build
-
yarn run chrome
ornpm run chrome
- Visit
chrome://extensions
in Chrome - Click Load unpacked (Make sure Developer Mode is on)
- Go to the directory containing the built copy of Mue and click ok
- Enjoy your new tab!
Opera (Click to expand)
-
yarn run build
ornpm run build
-
yarn run opera
ornpm run opera
- Visit
about://extensions
in Opera - Click Load unpacked extension... (Make sure Developer Mode is on)
- Go to the directory containing Mue and click ok
- Enjoy your new tab!
Firefox (Click to expand)
-
yarn run build
ornpm run build
-
yarn run firefox
ornpm run firefox
- Visit
about:debugging#addons
in Firefox - Click Load Temporary Add-on
- Go to the directory containing Mue and click on the manifest.json
- Enjoy your new tab!
Other (Click to expand)
Note: To get the full new tab experience, set your browser to open theindex.html
on startup and tab open!
-
yarn run build
ornpm run build
- Open the
index.html
in your browser - Enjoy your new tab!
Credits
Core Team
Maintainers
David Ralph (ohlookitsderpy) - Lead development, photographer
Developers
Alex Sparkes - Name, lead design, photographer
Isaac (Eartharoid) - QA, development, photographer
Wessel Tip - Development
Translators
Wessel Tip - Dutch
Alex Sparkes, Maxime - French
Anders - Norwegian
Pronin Egor - Russian
Vicente - Spanish
Resources
Pexels - Stock photos used for offline mode
Opera Forum - Portions of code to add Opera support
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.
And finally, a big thank you to all the contributors!