mue is open source under the BSD-3-Clause licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

Fast, open and free-to-use new tab page for modern browsers

What is mue written in?

mue is primarily written in JavaScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/mue/mue, and it has 758 GitHub stars.

mue: Open Source Browsers & Extensions

mue is a free, open source browsers & extensions project written in JavaScript and released under BSD-3-Clause. It has 758 GitHub stars, 86 forks and 26 open issues, and was last pushed 2 months ago. On this registry it ranks #120 of 133 tracked projects in Browsers & Extensions, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

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Mue

A fast, open and free-to-use browser extension that gives a new, fresh and customisable tab page to modern browsers.

muetab.com

🤔 Why Mue?

Beautiful and Minimalist Design
Customisable Layout
Widgets (such as weather, notes, bookmarks and more)
Privacy-Focused - does not track your browsing activity
Extensible with the Mue Marketplace
Open Source under the BSD-3 License

🌶️ Installation

Mue can be downloaded on the following browsers:

and can be manually sideloaded on others using the files on GitHub Releases

🚀 Demo

A fully-featured demo of the tab extension is available in-browser at demo.muetab.com

💻 Development

Install dependencies with bun install, and then you can run any of the following scripts as needed:

bun run dev[:host] - start development server
bun run build - build production copy of Mue
bun run lint[:fix] - run linter
bun run pretty - run prettier
bun run translations - migrate old translation format to new
bun run translations:percentages - update translation completion percentages from Weblate

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on:

Development workflow
Branch strategy (dev → beta → main)
Commit message format
Pull request process

For maintainers, see docs/RELEASE_PROCESS.md for release procedures.

🐳 Docker development

Hot reload is available while coding.

docker build -t mue-app . - build the image
docker volume create dev-bun-app - create a volume for the app
docker run -p 5173:5173 mue-app - run the container
docker run -p 5173:5173 \ -v $(pwd):/app \ -v dev-bun-app:/app/node_modules \ mue-app - run the container

Navigate to http://localhost:5173

🌍 Translations

We use Weblate for translations. To get started, please visit the project and look for the latest version to start translating Mue into your langauge.

Attribution

Pexels, Unsplash - Stock photos used for offline mode
Undraw - Welcome modal images

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