SquarePage

Name: SquarePage
Rating: 3.7 (15 reviews)
Author: TMAROIS

Customize your Start Page and New Tab page with live backgrounds, shortcuts and widgets; like weather, wallpapers and much more!

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SquarePage is a versatile Chrome extension that transforms your Start and New Tab pages into a fully customizable desktop-like experience. Users can personalize multiple pages with shortcuts to over 100 popular sites, widgets like weather, notes, and calculators, and animated or static HD backgrounds. It supports custom HEX color backgrounds, uploads of personal images, dark mode, and interactive elements designed to enhance productivity and aesthetics.

With features including search engine customization, shortcut icon libraries, and various layout options, SquarePage offers a robust and user-friendly interface. The extension also tracks updates frequently, introducing improved performance, new widgets, and advanced visual effects. Whether you want minimalism or a feature-rich start page, SquarePage adapts to your preferences, all while respecting your privacy according to its clear policy.

Add-on Productivity Utilities Design

By:

TMAROIS

Users:

16,412

Rating:

3.70

(15)

Version:

6.2.3 Last updated: 2022-05-29

Creation date:

2021-06-11

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
https://app.squaresearch.com/*

Size:

10.53MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Updated:

19 hours ago

Ranking

# 1,419 ▼ 139

Other rankings

#368 in Productivity ▲ 29

#9 in live start page keyword 20

#16 in start page keyword 44

#26 in customize keyword 35 ▲ 1

#44 in widget keyword 15 ▼ 4

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Other platforms

SquarePage (v6.3.14)

8,000 3.97

(37)

User reviews

SquarePage is praised for its user-friendly and stable design, offering a better custom dashboard experience with easy drag-and-drop and nice wallpapers. However, users report recurring bugs like disappearing shortcut icons, lack of ability to upload or customize background images and shortcut icons, cluttered address bar on new tabs, and poor developer support. These issues are significant and have led some users to consider uninstalling despite the add-on's potential.

Pros

User-friendly and straightforward interface
Stable and better than other custom dashboards
Allows easy rearrangement of elements via mouse drag and drop
Visually appealing wallpapers/backgrounds
Good for organizing start page with site shortcuts

Cons

Shortcut/site icons often vanish or fail to display correctly
Cannot upload or customize background images currently
Cannot change or customize site shortcut icons
New tab address bar is cluttered with extension URLs, hampering usability
Developer support unresponsive to user issues

Recent 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)

by Au*****, 2024-12-11

This is just perfect. It is straightforward, user-friendly, and has pretty much everything. 5 stars. 🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇

by ke*****, 2024-09-11

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

by Pr*****, 2024-04-15

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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SquarePage requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Medium Can alter new tab settings; fairly benign but with some capability to affect user experience.
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Risk likelihood

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SquarePage has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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