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Essential Buttons Toolbar and Homepage by Kristhian X.

Inserts a toolbar with essential buttons: Homepage, Duplicate Tab, New tab, Close tab and more.

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About this extension
This extension inserts a toolbar on all permitted web pages.

Available buttons:
- Homepage
- Duplicate Tab
- Copy link
- Close tab
- Close other tabs
- Close all tabs
- Undo Close Tab(s)
- New tab
- Go back
- Go forward
- Reload
- Page up
- Page down
- Scroll to the top
- Scroll to the bottom
- Toggle Desktop Site
- Open with
- Share URL
- Add to Top Sites
- Move toolbar
- Hide toolbar
- Menu
- Settings

Other options:
- Toolbar height
- Toolbar width
- Toolbar transparency
- Toolbar position
- Gap from the edge
- Icon theme
- Add-on theme
- Hide on scroll method
- Page up/down scroll overlap
- Toolbar buttons
- Exclude URLs
- Live reload of settings changes
- Integrated blank.html
- Integrated homepage.html — Essential Homepage is a minimalistic, productivity-focused replacement for the Firefox homepage.

Essential Homepage features:
- Adding, editing, moving, and removing Top Sites (shortcuts).
- Automatically retrieving the icon for a Top Site from DuckDuckGo or Google, with the option to specify a custom icon URL.
- No limit on the number of Top Sites you can create.
- Setting the page background from a URL, a local file, or retrieving a daily background from Unsplash based on a custom query.
- Importing and exporting Top Sites and preferences.

More info:
This extension is open-source. It does not access, log, or share your data. It is also ad-free and will always remain so.
  • GitHub page (usage tips and details):
    https://github.com/KristhianX/essential-buttons-toolbar
  • Feather Icons collection:
    https://github.com/feathericons/feather
  • Heroicons theme:
    https://github.com/tailwindlabs/heroicons

Support me:
Love this add-on? Help me keep it awesome! Consider donating to support future updates:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kristhianx

Thanks for your support! 🚀

Permissions:
- Access browser tabs — Required to manage tabs and open the homepage URL if no tab becomes active.
- Access your data for all websites — Required to insert the toolbar into websites.
- Input data to the clipboard — Required to enable the Copy link button to write the current URL to the clipboard.
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Required permissions:

  • Input data to the clipboard
  • Access browser tabs
  • Access your data for all websites
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Version
1.9.5
Size
66.44 KB
Last updated
3 days ago (Sep 29, 2025)
Related Categories
  • Appearance
  • Tabs
License
GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Release notes for 1.9.5
➡️ Added options to set the 'scroll overlap' amount for the 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' buttons, for both single press and long press!
Special thanks to @defmikekoh for adding this functionality!
More info: https://github.com/KristhianX/essential-buttons-toolbar/pull/55
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