Personal browser dashboard

Big Picture for your daily web

Toolies turns your new tab into a dark, Steam-inspired launch pad — customizable tiles, quick tools, and couch-friendly navigation with keyboard or gamepad.

Install Toolies See features

Firefox extension + self-host Live at toolies.tech

Built for focus and flow

Preview tiles at a glance, open tools without leaving the dashboard, and tune the layout to match how you actually browse.

Preview tiles

Large, readable tiles with categories — a Big Picture–style grid tuned for links, apps, and spaces you use every day.

Tools built in

Quick search and notes stay on the dashboard so you can capture ideas and jump to the web without tab chaos.

Deep customization

Dark theme, tile order, and categories you control — your dashboard, not a generic start page.

Keyboard & gamepad

Navigate like a console UI: directional focus, activate with confirm, built for sofa coding and lean-back browsing.

Install Toolies

Start with the Firefox extension for daily use, or run the full stack locally and on your VPS.

Firefox extension AMO coming soon

Load the add-on from the ffxextension folder in this repo during development. A Mozilla Add-ons listing will replace temporary loading.

Open about:debugging → This Firefox.
Click Load Temporary Add-on and choose manifest.json in ../ffxextension.
Pin Toolies and open a new tab to see your dashboard.

Future store link: addons.mozilla.org (placeholder until published).

Mozilla Add-ons

Self-hosted MERN

Run the parent browser-dashboard project on your machine or VPS (MongoDB, Express, React, Node).

cd ../browser-dashboard
npm install
npm run dev

Dev: Vite on port 5173, API on 3001 (see project README).

cd ../browser-dashboard
npm run build
npm run start

Deploy this landing

Static files in this folder are ready for Hostinger — no npm build step for the marketing site.

Upload to public_html

Copy index.html, styles.css, app.js, favicon.svg, and .htaccess into your Hostinger domain root (public_html).
Point domain toolies.tech

Attach toolies.tech / www.toolies.tech to that document root in hPanel DNS and hosting settings.
Enable HTTPS

Turn on SSL in Hostinger; .htaccess redirects HTTP to HTTPS and sets cache, deflate, and security headers on Apache.

https://www.toolies.tech