Bento VS firefox-scripts

Then tried to install 'Bento' startpage (not a startpage user, so a first here)... decided to go for what looked like the simpler option and install 'Bento' as a 'New Tab Page' using author's recommended 'Custom New Tab Page' extension... from which point the 'howto' instructions are slim to nonexistent... and although tried several different options... no joy... no 'Bento' startpage could be made to appear... sigh. :(

There are generally 3 types of start pages ones that have add-ons, simple html sites ("demos") and self hosted start pages. Installing the add ons should be simple and can be applied to both your homepage/new tab.

I'm just gonna assume that you are referring to migueravila/Bento's repo. Best tip for working with any Github Project is to thoroughly read through the README.md file. Reading through it we can find the Buttons & Links Section. There they specify to change the config.js of which there is only one in the repo. This file seems to have all the configuration settings we can possibly change. Things like your name, the background image, and greetings. But once you come across the firstButtonsContainer object this seems to store all links for your shortcuts. Here you should be able to modify the name, icon and link to show what you'd like. You will of course need to do this on whatever local repo you are using to serve your webpage.

Hey r/SideProject ! Project Link Bento is a self hosted Startpage fully customizable following a minimalist design and with focus in usability. I'm pretty happy to post this project here for the first time! Hope you all like it!

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Miguel's Bento seemed to be the best fit for me after trying a few different startpages. I added a list that shows the most recent free games from r/FreeGameFindings and converted the bottom buttons to a listing.

Nah it's good, this one has a startpage made for it as well

For a long time, I've been making use of a MacOS-esque scrollbar I found online. I'm using XiaoXiaoFlood's loader script, and I've made the necessary changes to the files mentioned here to make it able to load .js and .uc.js files again. I've also modified the script a fair bit, though reverted most as it didn't work. Currently, I'm using this one, which has simply commented out the things that rely on Services. Though, even if I add it with something like const Services = globalThis.Services || ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm").Services; it doesn't make much of a difference. I've also tried using a userChrome.xml file, but that doesn't do much anymore. Was around 72/75 where that stopped working right?

Though for the full value I personally really also need some sort of interface that can show individual page visits in order to answer the question "What other pages did I visit at that point in time?" (sometimes I don't remember the right keywords to find a certain page again, but only some other page I visited during the same browsing session). The built-in history view is only of limited value here, because it always only shows the most-recent visit, so as soon as you visit a page again, it moves to the front of the list again and loses its original place and history context.

As usual, there used to be an add-on for that, which was subsequently broken by the move to webextensions (and even if somebody wanted to rewrite it, the webextension API doesn't cater for its full functionality). Thankfully some kind soul has maintained a version hacked to still work even on a current Firefox (https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master...).

This is what you're looking for.

Heads up though, it doesn't work for most tooltips. For that, I found the only way to change them is to use the above code in an agentsheet (https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts, see the "StyloaiX" section)

Bootstrapped extensions are supported (really, xiaoxiaoflood is the only one who maintains any popular ones).

depending on your needs existing extensions may work for you, though the ContentScript based implementations have issues, if that's not enough you can use https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts as it allows you to run the code in the browser UI, unfortunately there's no easy to use extension (and sadly FireGestures require update to work, even with loader injected into Quantum) so you may need to work with the code a bit (or more)

do what exactly? inject code? there are many slightly different approaches, the most reliable seems to be https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts and using an approach like that forks can add extra configs to the UI making users' lives easier

Not in the foreseeable future, but maybe achievable with userChromeJS.