I’m a mod of !startpages (https://kbin.social/m/startpages), which is all about the startpage/new tab page that resides in your browser. Right now It only has a few posts, so it’d be great to have some more users.

I use Cosmos Cloud because it makes managing my containers and hosting them a lot easier. It includes a reverse proxy (with anti ddos and anti bot), an OIDC server, a container manager (lets you import docker composes too), easy container deploy through app store, multiple users, and more. It’s also supposed to come out with a few features that let you connect through a VPN (so your services are not directly exposed) and set up cgnat bypass / hide your ip.

I completely agree. It’s not up to me (@NotSteve_), but I would be fine with unprivating the old subreddit and making it read-only. I felt the same way when we first migrated, so I at least archived the top 20 or so posts (https://kbin.social/m/startpages/t/12385), but obviously that’s not nearly anywhere close to the number of posts on the subreddit.

I’ve never actually tried to do this, so I don’t know. The original support forum was from 4 years ago, so maybe it doesn’t work for newer versions?

I know I’m late, but here’s the original post:

I was able to do this without an extension in Firefox. I followed the instructions here.

These are the steps I took:

1. Open the Firefox installation folder. For me, this was “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox”

2. Under this folder, open the “defaults\pref” folder. If not present, make those two folders.

3. Create a file called “autoconfig.js” inside the “defaults\prefs” folder, and put the following in it. This lets us run our own Javascript to configure the browser. The comment line at the top is required.
   //
pref("general.config.filename", "autoconfig.cfg");
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
pref("general.config.sandbox_enabled", false);

4. Go back to the Firefox program folder ..\..

5. Create a file named “autoconfig.cfg”

6. Put the following in the file, replacing the value of newTabURL with the path to your startpage. This is 5 lines.
   // first line is a comment
var {classes:Cc,interfaces:Ci,utils:Cu} = Components;
var newTabURL = "file:///PATH_TO_YOUR_START_PAGE.html";
aboutNewTabService = Cc["@mozilla.org/browser/aboutnewtab-service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIAboutNewTabService);
aboutNewTabService.newTabURL = newTabURL;

7. Profit.

Kbin doesn’t have an api yet, so apps aren’t supported (there are some in the works though for when the api goes public). In the meantime, you can install the pwa through a browser.