StartGrid - A New Tab Firefox

StartGrid - A New Tab

Turn your new tab into a customizable widget grid — clock, weather, calendar, bookmarks, notes, and live wallpapers.

Features & Capabilities

StartGrid replaces your browser's blank new tab page with a customizable grid of widgets, set against a background of your choice.

  • Widget grid — freely arrange Clock, Weather, Notes, Bookmarks, Quicklinks, Rain Radar, and more on your new tab page
  • Backgrounds — solid colors, gradients, custom images, or live photos from Unsplash, Bing, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, and Wikimedia
  • Calendar, Mail & Tasks — optional Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Outlook Mail, and Google Tasks widgets connect via Google/Microsoft sign-in to show your upcoming events (including multiple calendars, not just your default one) and unread mail. Only the data needed to display it is fetched; nothing is stored on a StartGrid server
  • Google Mail — an optional widget showing your unread Gmail inbox, without Google sign-in: it uses the Gmail session already open in your browser, via a separate optional permission you grant in the widget's settings
  • Everything is configured and stored locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded to a StartGrid-run server
  • Optional permission for 127.0.0.1 is used solely by the optional Obsidian widgets to connect to your local Obsidian desktop app. No vault data ever leaves your device
  • Optional permission for mail.google.com is used solely by the Google Mail widget described above, to read your inbox directly from your browser to Gmail. No mail data is sent to or stored on a StartGrid server
  • Rain Radar — live precipitation radar for your location, powered by RainViewer, with scrubbing/playback

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V3 Add-on Overrides new tab Overrides home page
By:
vinzenz-san
Daily users:
2
Rating:
5.00
(1)
Version:
1.21.0 Last updated: 2026-08-30
Version code:
6449441
Creation date:
2026-07-22
Firefox add-on GUID:
startgrid@local
Firefox add-on numeric ID:
3042577
Weekly download count:
2
Firefox on Android:
No
Risk:
Low risk impact High risk likelihood
Permissions:
Size:
290.67KB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-09-06
Compare stats and ranking:

Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
vinzenz-san
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/startgrid-a-new-tab/
Website:
https://github.com/vinzenz-san/startgrid/issues

Permission Change History

2026-08-31: Version 1.19.9 → 1.21.0
Add Optional host permissions: https://mail.google.com/*
2026-08-15: Version 1.19.2 → 1.19.6
Add Permissions: search
2026-07-31: Version 1.3.0 → 1.6.1
Add Optional host permissions: http://127.0.0.1/*
2026-07-29: Version 1.1.2 → 1.3.0
Remove Permissions: bookmarks
Remove Host permissions: https://accounts.google.com/* https://oauth2.googleapis.com/* https://www.googleapis.com/* https://bing.npanuhin.me/* https://*.nasa.gov/* https://*.unsplash.com/* https://*.bing.com/* https://api.open-meteo.com/* https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com/*
Add Optional permissions: bookmarks

Is StartGrid - A New Tab Safe?

Risk impact
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StartGrid - A New Tab requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Medium Can change homepage settings, which might annoy the user but typically carries low risk.
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Risk likelihood
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StartGrid - A New Tab is recently added, and hasn't been around long enough for us to gather enough data to accurately assess its risk level.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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