Reviews for Bonjourr · Minimalist New Tab Page
Bonjourr · Minimalist New Tab Page by Victor Azevedo, Tahoe
17 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by dtaylor887, a month agoBonjourr deserves five stars but with the latest update to 22.3.0 I am having a problem when trying to paste a search item in the Bonjourr Search Box in Firefox and MSEdge. I keep seeing a popup that says "Edit Search Bar Settings" when trying right click to paste in the Search Box. Bug filed with Github and developer is working on it. The paste feature in the Bonjourr Search Box comes in handy instead of having to use the browser address bar.
Note: It has been three months now and no fix so I feel I need to give it a 3 star rating now. When fixed I will move it to 5 stars. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18650830, a month ago1. the time formatting for clocks is incorrect / wonky.
1.1. PST - 8 displays incorrect time.
1.2. EST displays incorrect time.
1.3. CST displays incorrect time.
1.4 Auto shows Los Angeles as the location name with the time showing East Coast EST time. Horribly done there.
2. there's no integration for background images. Users are forced outside the extension to a 3rd party website wherein, they're required to create accounts and create collections of images that this extension pulls from. Too cumbersome- should be built in to make it easier like how Tabliss does it. No need to create collections and then input the URL hyperlink into the extension to which, half the time when I tried it, it didn't work as expected / wonky results.
3. Laggy upon scrolling due to the iOS looking wrapper / UI unless one has enabled hardware acceleration to which, on my Mac, jacks up the power supply consumption into MAX wattage current draw and spikes the CPU temp to 100C and locks the browser up.
4. The greeting section is very nicely done and the way they coded in column / page layout options - two thumbs up.
5. The font selection is very wonky and crashed Firefox v157. Vision impairment issues - attempting to facilitate fonts for vision - setting it to Atkinson Hyperlegible locked the machine up solid - required a force quit to which, FF didn't let go of the process in Activity Monitor due to this extension holding it in limbo until the machine was rebooted. SF Pro Text was fine seeing as it is an Apple standard 101 font. But, here's the thing - the fonts never changed on the display.
Great ideas and a wonderful clean look - love it and for that, fantastic. However, too many bugs and broken items that don't work such as font changes, time clocks, time zones and so forth. Keep at it, i'll reinstall and give it a go later.
Cheers - Rated 3 out of 5by RyzenInu, 6 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18740745, 6 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by m4c0202, a year 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 year 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 3 out of 5by Axolotl, a year agoI really love the extension, and I want to love it a lot more but the only thing stopping me is that it doesn't have an option to follow system theme for a light/dark mode.
My system changes from light to dark depending on the time of day and yeah, it'll make its settings page dark correctly for its 'system' option, but there's no further options for changing the actual homepage. So, right now I get flashbanged at night.
I really don't understand why there's an auto switching option for the settings sidebar, but there's no seperate system setting for background/text colour swapping for it...
If you don't use system themes, then 5/5, if you do, then 3/5, and sadly I do. - Rated 3 out of 5by Anmol Sharma, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Aria, 2 years agoWorks well for mozilla-based browsers (using Zen right now) (of course, to be expected), runs into a problem where nothing basically shows up in the background.
- Rated 3 out of 5by adgbrshruwzawrh, 2 years agoDas Anlegen von Booksmarks funktioniert über bereits im Browser gespeicherte Bookmarks – das hätte ich mir flexibler gewünscht (zum Beispiel durch „hinzufügen“. Layout-Einstellungen zu rudimentär.
- Rated 3 out of 5by ,aszkdj fglk,a, 2 years agoi like it but it reset itself while i had everything setup :/
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi, sorry about that! Did EVERYTHING get reset or just your links? If it's only your links, install the 20.1.2 update and they'll come back. - Rated 3 out of 5by jamvaru, 4 years agooddly, the analog clock is wonky
the hour hand showed a few minutes past 3, but the minute hand showed 45
lol
nm; i don't need it, it's weird, european, nm, uninstall; try again, maybe go for more of a world app, not a eu app - Rated 3 out of 5by CapeLinuX, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Dylan, 5 years agoGood features. Only issue is that it takes a while for homepage to load - is there a way to fix this? It's instant for the newtab page though.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHey Dylan !
It is a Firefox issue :(
Firefox has to load first before Bonjourr can, so there's always going to be some delay. In comparison, Momentum & Tabliss have around the same load time. - Rated 3 out of 5by br, 5 years agoNice looking, but awkward to customize. The custom icons constantly break and need to be reset. The donate overlay is extremely annoying and appears to be impossible to get rid of. Removed. Bye.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoI'm sorry you left br :(
The annoying donate popup was an issue from last update, and is now fixed (v1.11.1). You can now remove it by clicking on it. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17158003, 5 years agoIt's pretty good, but is missing some details.
Ctrl+Left Click on a shortcut does not open a link in a new tab. I assume shortcuts are probably buttons rather than links, but typical key combinations are useful.
The background photo taking a quarter second to fade in is annoying. Having the extension ready all the time in the background would be nice, that way the startpage only has to be loaded on firefox start.Developer response
posted 5 years agoHello :)
You can open link in a new tab by clicking with the mouse wheel, but you're right, we'll add the ctrl+click combination too.
As for the background taking time to load, new tab pages are just website pages and can only load when you request it. You can add this line to your custom style settings to see if you prefer without fade in:
#interface #background_overlay { transition: none } - Rated 3 out of 5by Leeek, 6 years agoJe suis assez adepte du minimaliste; en cela Bonjourr est bon. En revanche il est incapable de rester en mémoire; il est trop souvent à régler après les nettoyages ou non. D'ou ma note passable... merci...
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16198014, 6 years ago