November Update: Chrome Extension, Team Portal, and more!

It’s been a while since we’ve written an original blog post. The reason is simple: we’ve been working so hard to improve our service that we couldn’t find time to let you know. Until this November. Want to know what we’ve been doing? Here’s a selection of our best efforts so far.

Chrome extension updates

A lot of our efforts went into improving the Chrome New Tab extension, as well as the Chrome Bookmarker Extension. We updated the code to comply with Manifest V3, a requirement by Google, which offers improvements in privacy, security, and performance. It will now load noticeably faster!

We haven’t updated the extension Firefox and Edge yet, but they will soon follow.

Together with the new code, we’ve also updated our screenshots and other marketing material. We hope you like it! And if you’d like to show your appreciation, you can leave a review in the Chrome Web Store. Many users have done this, and we genuinely love the support.

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I’ve used StartMe for many years now and find it invaluable. If you spend the time to tailor it to your needs anything and everything you use is just one click away and in a logical place. I think it’s brilliant and serves me very well indeed..

Gavin Mason (November 2, 2022)

Team Portal Updates

Less visible but also important are the many changes we made to the Admin Portal for Teams. If you don’t have a team, you can skip this part, but if you do, you’ll be pleasantly surprised. We’ve made the Tabs more logical and visually appealing. In fact, the entire layout has been redesigned.

We’ve also added new features, like the option to manage role permissions with a simple set of toggles. For example, you can now disallow team members to create personal pages with their accounts. If you just want your team members to access your company information, you may want to switch this toggle ON.

Another interesting feature, requested by our clients, is the option to disable all third-party tracking code for an entire subdomain. This allows users to exclude Google Analytics and some other external server monitoring scripts from being loaded on your subdomain. Excluding these tags enhances the online privacy of your team pages.

November Widget improvements

Other development efforts in or before the month of November went into minor improvements of the widgets, we’ve made available to our users. For example, it’s now possible to add a description to every widget, not just to Bookmark widgets. Just click the Edit button and you’ll see the Description field.

We’ve also improved the styling of our Image Gallery widget and made it possible to upload more than one image at once.

One Final Question

Besides these three highlights, we’ve managed to solve a lot of minor bugs, cleaned up redundant code, and answered a lot of support questions. This leaves us with just one question: do you appreciate these changes? We’d love to hear all about it in the comments!