# JP-Startpage

> A keyboard-driven startpage/new-tab page with a pseudo-Japanese terminal aesthetic. Panels of links open by hotkey, with a clock, weather, quotes and your own images.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/jp-startpage](https://chrome-stats.com/d/jp-startpage)

## Overview

- **ID:** `jp-startpage`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Michael Ritchot
- **Category:** appearance,tabs
- **Version:** 1.3.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-01
- **First published:** 2026-08-24
- **Size:** 876 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/jp-startpage/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/mritchot/jp-startpage](https://github.com/mritchot/jp-startpage)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/jp-startpage/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/jp-startpage/privacy/)

## Description

JP-Startpage replaces the new tab with a quiet, keyboard-first page: a clock, an image box you can drop pictures onto, a rotating quote, live weather, and panels of links that open by hotkey.

<strong>KEYBOARD</strong>

Press a panel's letter to open it, then a link's letter to follow it. Press / to search, and a single letter after the slash picks an engine for that one search. Escape clears.

<strong>CONFIGURE</strong>

Everything sits behind the CONFIG tray in the bottom right: colors, light and dark, clock format, type scale, box height, greeting, weather, quote source, panels and their links, images, search engines and the tab title. Click a link row to edit its label, hotkey and URL in place.

<strong>SYNC</strong>

Profile sync keeps your setup level across every machine signed into the same Firefox Account, with Add ons ticked in Sync preferences. A GitHub Gist option moves a setup between different browsers. You can also export and import a plain .json file.

<strong>PRIVACY</strong>

No accounts, no analytics, no third-party requests on load. The fonts ship with the extension. Weather comes from Open-Meteo only while the weather panel is on, and location is IP-level or browser-level at your choice. Favicons are off by default because turning them on asks Google for an icon per domain.

Open source under the MIT license.

## Rankings

- #139,520 — Overall
- #84 — live start page
- #173 — start page

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Can change homepage settings, which might annoy the user but typically carries low risk.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/jp-startpage)