Mue is a fast, open and free-to-use browser extension that gives a new, fresh and customizable tab page to most modern browsers
May be updated in the future
- 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!
- Multilingual support
A demo of the tab can be found here
- clone the repository using
git clone https://github.com/mue/mue.git - run
yarnornpm ito install all needed dependencies - run
yarn startornpm startto start testing - Code your heart out! (See the sections below for how to build the extension)
Chrome/Edge (Chromium) (Click to expand)
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yarn run buildornpm run build - Rename
manifest-chrome.jsonin the "manfiest" folder tomanifest.jsonin "build" - Visit
chrome://extensionsin 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)
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yarn run buildornpm run build - Rename
manifest-opera.jsonin the "manfiest" folder tomanifest.jsonin "build" - Copy
background-opera.jsin the "manifest" folder to "build" - Visit
about://extensionsin 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)
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yarn run buildornpm run build - Rename
manifest-firefox.jsonin the "manfiest" folder tomanifest.jsonin "build" - Visit
about:debugging#addonsin 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!
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yarn run buildornpm run build - Open the
index.htmlin your browser - Enjoy your new tab!
ohlookitsderpy - Founder, Lead development, Photographer
TurboMarshmello - Name, Lead design, Photographer
Wessel - Development
Isaac - QA, Development, Photographer
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 and Nikka Lai for letting us use their wonderful photographs