https://github.com/robbield/tabby
Just another new tab page. This one focuses on being super minimal, clean not framework dependant.
https://github.com/robbield/tabby
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Just another new tab page. This one focuses on being super minimal, clean not framework dependant.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/robbield/tabby
- Owner: RobbieLD
- Created: 2023-01-22T12:15:42.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-02-03T05:43:33.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-01T04:33:43.258Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: TypeScript
- Size: 7.94 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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- Readme: readme.md
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# 
Tabby
This is just another FireFox new tab extension because I couldn't find one that I wanted already available.
## Features
- Stores all icons locally in local storage (so use smallish ones) so it cuts down on network requests for every new tab.
- Uses unsplash as the background.
- Add and remove icons for apps.
- Backgrounds urls are cached for an hour to avoid excess api usage.
- Settings menu allows you to manually refresh the background when ever you like.
- Import and export icon lists.
## Installation
There are two release channels you can install this extension from which are described below.
### Develop
__FireFox__: This extension can be installed directly in firefox (and will have auto updates) from the release page in this repo by downloading [tabby-firefox-dev.xpi](https://github.com/RobbieLD/tabby/releases/latest/download/tabby-firfox-dev.xpi). However as this is the dev release it's not signed by Mozilla so it can only be installed in the [Developer Release](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/) or other experimental releases once you've disabled the signing check by going to `about:config`, change `xpinstall.signatures.required` to `false`.
__Chrome__: Chrome won't let you install unsigned crx files so you'll need to download the [latest release zip file](https://github.com/RobbieLD/tabby/releases/latest/download/tabby-chromium-dev.zip) and load it as an unpacked extension once you've extracted it an enabled developer mode in chrome. Unfortunately that won't have auto updates.
### Stable
Stable releases are available from the [FireFox add-on page](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabby/) and soon the Chrome web store page.
## Usage
To use the extension you'll need a free unsplash api key which can be obtained from the [Unsplash Dev Portal](https://unsplash.com/developers). You will be prompted for this when you first open the extension.
## Development
The code is written in [Svelte.js](https://svelte.dev/). To get started clone the repository and then run `yarn install` to install the required packages. You can start a development server with `yarn run dev` or package the extension with `yarn run build`.
## Contributing
Contributions in the form of PRs are welcome. This started as a little project for me to make something I wanted but since I've gone to all that work I figured I'd put it on the Mozilla add-on hubs so other's could use it too. There's a lot of features around customisation which could be added but I haven't bothered with at the moment since it's how I want it, but I'll probably get to some of them in the future.