# startster

> A beautiful start page for your browser. It provides a search bar with customizable search engines and 4k backgrounds. If you want you can show me wishes for new features at https://github.com/piekay/startster/issues/new.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `startster`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Piekay
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.3
- **Last updated:** 2020-03-01
- **First published:** 2020-02-18
- **Size:** 1.84 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-08-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/startster/)
- **Website:** [https://pascal-koelsch.de/startster](https://pascal-koelsch.de/startster)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/startster/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/startster/privacy/)

## Description

Startster is a Firefox add-on that offers a beautiful start page with a search bar featuring customizable search engines and stunning 4k backgrounds. It was created in 2013 to help learn Javascript, HTML, and CSS and is being rewritten to modernize the code.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very high risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Can alter new tab settings; fairly benign but with some capability to affect user experience.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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