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My Start Page
Browser Extension

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Overview

My Start Page is a personal new-tab extension published by Pragmatic Disruptor, LLC. It turns your new tab into a fast, local-first home screen: search, bookmarks, news, weather, tasks, notes, and layout you control. Your settings and data stay in the browser on your device—no analytics or tracking are part of the product design.

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There is no cost for the extension and its expanding capabilities.

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Browsers: Built for Chromium (Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium browsers) and Firefox, using one codebase with store-specific packages so each store’s policies can be honored without maintaining separate apps.

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What you get:

  • Search — Multiple search providers and custom engines. On Chromium, the experience is designed for store policy alignment: a “Browser default” path uses the browser’s search APIs where applicable, while named providers use normal search URLs; Firefox uses URL-based search (no search permission).

  • Bookmarks — Multiple columns, favicons, edit flows, and layout controls.

  • News — RSS/Atom feeds with tabs; add and manage feeds in settings (with sensible fallbacks when feeds are hard to reach).

  • Weather — Location search and forecast via Open-Meteo (no API key).

  • To-do and notes — Simple productivity surfaces stored locally.

  • Layout and pages — Drag-and-drop style layout evolution, multiple pages/tabs of content, and a Reading Queue for link-first workflows.

  • Settings and Help — Central configuration, visibility toggles, background options, and in-product help.

  • Appearance — Light, Dark, and use device setting theming (ongoing refinement across surfaces).

  • Accessibility — We aim for keyboard-friendly settings and readable contrast.  Please provide feedback if you have difficulty.

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Trust & Privacy

 

My Start Page is built to keep your layout, bookmarks, tasks, notes, and preferences on your device inside the browser. We do not use the extension to run analytics, advertising trackers, or a telemetry “phone home” for how you use the page.

 

Some features need the internet to work: for example, weather uses Open-Meteo, news loads RSS/Atom feeds from the sites you choose (and may use public fetch helpers only when a feed cannot be loaded directly), and bookmark icons may load from a favicon service so columns stay readable. Those providers operate under their own terms and privacy practices.

 

For a full statement of what we publish about data practices for the site and products, see our Privacy Notice.

What this extension does not do

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  • Does not sell or share your personal start-page data with Pragmatic Disruptor, LLC for marketing lists or profiling.

  • Does not change your browser’s global default search engine or use the search engine override APIs to redirect all searches.

  • Does not read your passwords, payment information, or unrelated browsing history to “personalize” the start page.

  • Does not silently follow links or scrape sites in the background; network use is tied to actions and features you use (for example opening weather, refreshing a feed, or loading an icon).

  • Does not require you to create an account or sign in to use the start page.

Release Notes

1.0.8 (current)

  • Publisher branding in the manifest (“My Start Page by Pragmatic Disruptor, LLC”) and version alignment.

  • Appearance / theme: Light, Dark, and system-driven mode in Master Settings; continued dark styling across modals and widget settings (notes, to-do, news, weather, help, page/tab dialogs).

  • UX consistency: Shared modal shell patterns and overlay token work for a more consistent settings experience.

  • Firefox polish: Tab title and settings/copy cleanup (for example duplicate “copy internal URL” control removal); documentation on temporary add-on behavior in Firefox.

  • Planning: Backlog/release docs updated (for example Playwright E2E noted as gated; optional theme color vs background tracked).

 

1.0.7

  • Interaction hardening: Shared Escape handling and overlay lifecycle (focus trap teardown, consistent close behavior) across settings surfaces.

  • Theme foundation: Semantic theme tokens and initial structured theming work to support later dark/system rollout without one-off color drift.

  • Quality: Wheel/tab scroll behavior fixes for narrow viewports and input burst/gating; documentation for wheel regression checks.

  • Process: Store release SOP and git workflow guidance for repeatable releases.

 

1.0.4 – 1.0.6 (store and policy iteration; summarized)

  • Chromium store compliance: Work to satisfy Chrome Web Store expectations for new-tab search and permissions, including Chromium-specific search behavior and Firefox parity without breaking Firefox’s permission model.

  • RSS delivery: Improvements and documentation around CORS and proxy fallbacks (especially relevant for Firefox).

  • Repository hygiene: Established packaging discipline, build outputs, and release zips.

 

1.0.1 – 1.0.3 (Firefox / packaging track; summarized)

  • Firefox (AMO) packaging and submission artifacts appear in archived MyStartPage-firefoxV1.0.1_* zips alongside the 1.0.x line—representing Firefox store progression in parallel with Chromium.

 

1.0.0

  • First store-oriented “package ready” milestone for Chrome/Edge submission (see archived Extension - MSP_1.0.0 - Package Ready for Chrome and Edge Submission and MyStartPage-v1.0.0.zip-style packaging notes): MV3 bundle with icons, built assets, and submission checklist tying to Privacy Notice and reviewer notes.

 

0.0.12 

  • Tab experience milestones: Completed multi-tab / scroll wheel / page UX hardening.

 

0.0.11 / 0.0.10

  • Tab structure milestone: Tab structure completed so widgets could be organized and moved across pages/tabs.

 

0.0.9

  • “Ready for Web Stores” — readiness pass before submission packaging.

 

0.0.8a / 0.0.8b

  • Audit rounds 1 and 2 — review-driven fixes before the “ready for stores” state.

 

0.0.7

  • Security hardening pass.

 

0.0.6

  • Create comforts and expanded UX functions such as Help feature added (in-product guidance).

 

0.0.5

  • Post-refactor stabilization after a major internal refactor (0.0.4 = prior-to-refactor snapshot). Established best practices and build rigor with the IDE partner. 

 

0.0.4

  • Pre-refactor snapshot; baseline before structural code changes.  This version converted MSP into an extension from a website architecture.

 

0.0.3

  • RSS/news expansion and customization.

 

0.0.2

  • Search expansion plus custom engines.

 

0.0.1

  • Expanded search engine support.

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0.0.0a / 0.0.0b

  • Initial builds with IDE development partner, and built the tech stack, dev partnership framework, and trust center establishing different roles between human architect and IDE dev hands.

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