Optistart by darclux

Optistart replaces Firefox New Tab and, optionally, the homepage with a fast, clean and customizable dashboard.

Features:

• Search through search engines installed in Firefox
• Frequently and recently visited sites
• User-selected RSS/Atom feeds and supported news websites
• General news from Mozilla Merino
• News displayed either mixed or grouped by topic
• Local handling of read, hidden and similar news items
• Optional ranking of general news using a locally generated interest profile
• Optional filtering of detected paywall articles
• Sports results including OpenLigaDB and Jolpica F1
• Multilingual interface with 16 built-in languages
• Additional languages can be imported as local JSON language packs
• Optional performance diagnostics

Privacy:

Firefox browsing history is processed locally for Recent Sites and, only when explicitly enabled, for the interest profile. Browsing history and the derived interest profile are not sent to the developer, Mozilla Merino or news providers. Optistart has no developer-operated analytics or tracking service.

Network access is required for news, sports and the search provider selected by the user. User-added news sources are fetched only after Firefox grants the required site permission.