PureStart
by jensjeksel more by this developer →
#164,929 of 271,475 by installs on Chrome · #13,471 of 20,585 in make chrome yours
First seen by this census 09/01/2026 — the store does not publish a creation date
Last updated 05/12/2026
Tracked since 09/01/2026
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Category: make chrome yours / functionality
Languages: English, norsk
Description
A Safari-style start page for Edge and Chrome. No accounts, no telemetry, no ads.
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Growth
Change in installs. This store publishes the count rounded to one or two significant figures, so it does not move when the listing grows - it moves when the rounding rolls over. The figures below are therefore what was actually observed between the two crawls named in "measured over", not scaled to the window, and the percentage is of that same rounding step - so a small listing crossing a bucket shows a very large one. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| day | -1 | — | -1 | 1 days |
| week | +2 | — | +2 | 8.8 days |
| month | Not enough history yet | |||
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
History
Users
Permissions
Access level: Limited — Some access to your activity or data, or to specific websites.
- Read and change your bookmarks
- See the sites you visit most often
- If you allow it: reads and changes your data on all websites
Manifest V3
No website access
Can ask you for access to all websites