SquarePage: Customizable Start Page Add-on for Edge
SquarePage is an add-on for the Edge browser that transforms your Start Page. Features like customization of backgrounds, shortcuts and widgets that include weather, notes, calculator, etc., make your browsing experience personalized and effective. It also comes with dark mode, search engine customizations and the ability to add your own custom search provider. New updates always aim at enhancing user experience with improvements and additions based on user feedback.
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FEATURES:
★ Fully customizable start page
★ Create many pages to group shortcuts and widgets
★ Use HEX color codes for custom backgrounds
★ Dozens of HD background images
★ Upload your own custom backgrounds
★ Animated and Interactive backgrounds
★ Dark Mode
★ Add Widgets, like weather, notes, calculator, and much more!
★ Add & Move Shortcuts anywhere on the page
★ Select from a shortcut library, including over 100+ popular sites
★ Customize the shortcut icons by choosing a library of icons and colors
★ Search engine customization (Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia...)
★ Open links or search results in new tabs
★ Hide shortcuts or the search box (for the minimalist)
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Pros
User-friendly and straightforward interface
Stable performance compared to other start pages
Customization options for layout and positioning of elements
Allows moving shortcuts easily with the mouse
Good functionality overall
Cons
Issues with shortcut icons disappearing
Inability to upload custom background images
No response from developer regarding support inquiries
New tab focuses on the address bar incorrectly
Lack of basic text formatting features
Most mentioned
Problems with shortcut icons and ability to customize
Developer support is lacking
General ease of use and stability compared to competitors
User reviews
It's been a month since I started using this extension.
For those thinking of installing this extension, I'd say just do it. You won't regret it. However, I would like to suggest/ request some improvements from the developer.
* Add a built-in timer/reminder for notes.
* A website icon should appear when you save a shortcut similar to the way it appears when you bookmark a page in the browser. (important)
* When you are on the homepage or new tab, the address bar should be empty/clean instead of it filled up with messy extension URLs. It makes it difficult for user to put queries inside the address bar when the user wants to search something or go to a website. (important)
* Add basic text formatting features such as highlight, underline, strikethrough, italic, bold, bullets. (important)
New tab doesn't focus on the address bar, its supper annoying. always this code : extension://ncklgdfggnihgccignllhlgffofjanlk/index.html?r=start and copying and restoring on another laptop does not have this problem. tried turning off " new tab focus on search box". worked for 1st new tab and resets and automatically turned on. not prevalent on other computer