Reviews for Bonjourr · Minimalist and lightweight startpage
Bonjourr · Minimalist and lightweight startpage by Victor Azevedo, Tahoe
Review by Varniit
Rated 5 out of 5
by Varniit, a year agoIf you want to beautify or is bored by the default new tab of Firefox, Chrome, and Edge (yes, check on Chrome and Edge addon store) then Bonjourr new tab addon is there. I am using it for last 5 years when I discovered this via Reddit. And since then it is new only addon apart from Ublock Origin or Adguard or Ghostery that is used constantly or re-installed. A lot of customizations and gives you a feel of premium homepage and you can change your default search engine, not limited or bonded by what browsers forces us to use.
But as said before and mailed to Devs (I don't know if they have read it or even considered it not) about some additions to existing features like -
- Missing AM/PM for time widget. No option to get it enabled.
- Changing of widgets' positions is still messy. Need simplification like tableus are done.
- Search suggestions from whichever search engine you use doesnt show any. Need working on it.
- Add more independent search engines like Brave Search, Kagi, Startpage, Mojeek.
- Currently there are 2 ways to change background wallpaper i.e., Unsplash and Local. I hope topics, colors, genre, feel and Pexels are brought in.
- Backup thing is difficult. An export file that is saved locally or cloud backup with Google Drive or OneDrive or PCloud would be a good way to backup in anything happens to device or customizations done.
I don't know it is me or something else but what customizations are here for Chrome and Chromium browser users, are not exactly same for Firefox or Gecko-based browser users. Please clarify on this.
5 stars but resolving these is necessary to sustain those 5 stars.
But as said before and mailed to Devs (I don't know if they have read it or even considered it not) about some additions to existing features like -
- Missing AM/PM for time widget. No option to get it enabled.
- Changing of widgets' positions is still messy. Need simplification like tableus are done.
- Search suggestions from whichever search engine you use doesnt show any. Need working on it.
- Add more independent search engines like Brave Search, Kagi, Startpage, Mojeek.
- Currently there are 2 ways to change background wallpaper i.e., Unsplash and Local. I hope topics, colors, genre, feel and Pexels are brought in.
- Backup thing is difficult. An export file that is saved locally or cloud backup with Google Drive or OneDrive or PCloud would be a good way to backup in anything happens to device or customizations done.
I don't know it is me or something else but what customizations are here for Chrome and Chromium browser users, are not exactly same for Firefox or Gecko-based browser users. Please clarify on this.
5 stars but resolving these is necessary to sustain those 5 stars.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by P1XEL07, 3 days agoNot gonna lie, this thing is awesome!
The amount of customization it provides is genuinely surprising, and I really like the ability to add custom css code, worked well with my Zen Browser layout. - Rated 5 out of 5by Aimee, 4 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19499985, 4 days agoЛучшая домашняя вкладка. Но с недавнего времени иногда стала негрузится, а в последний раз впринципе все настройки сбросились до изначальных, из-за чего потерял ссылки которые были на быстром доступе.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Scherox, 10 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by David Angel, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19486570, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14062796, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by PT, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jimshinchen, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BonBon, 23 days agoHas so much functionality basically everything i could want in a home page. The only tiny wishes i have are to display the time in both 12 and 24 hr format, the temp. in both C and F, and to have a widget to display the AQI (air quality index).
- Rated 5 out of 5by blitzduck, a month ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Кирилл, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kamal, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by m4c0202, a month agoUsed to use it for a year already, but some time ago it became unusable in Russia without VPN. Even local image import is broken until the connection with Bonjourr servers is established (?). It's still my favorite newtab extension, but the way it is going is strange enough. I have no idea why offline functions requires internet.
Developer response
posted a month agoThanks for the review! Indeed that is quite strange, you're the first to report such problems in Russia. I couldn't reproduce them with a VPN based in Russia.
Could you get in touch with us (bonjourr.app@protonmail.com) so we can try and help you out? Thank you. - Rated 5 out of 5by Ant_ted, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19428419, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19148410, a month agoBrilliant extension! Totally refreshes the look of the home page and you can customize various options as well. Highly recommended