News Hub Kiosk · Browser Extension 💻 Win/Mac/Linux

✨ NEW modern look: rounded side menu, menus, messages and mini tutorial, cleaner top-bar buttons in the same places and sizes, the same on every site
🌙 NEW Dark Mode in the side menu: AUTO (like your computer), ON or OFF
🌑 NEW Dark skin: makes light pages dark and leaves dark pages as they are
📐 NEW top-bar button: the window goes back to its default size and position in one click
🖥️ The window opens on the screen you’re using and grows on bigger screens (1440p, 4K), in its usual place
🛟 Safer window: if a monitor is unplugged or the place doesn’t fit, the window opens on the main screen instead of not opening
🎥 NEW Video of the window: 5, 15 or 30 seconds, your own time, or start and stop yourself (saved as MP4)
🎓 The mini tutorial now shows every option: the side menu (Theme – Skin Color, Multi Window – Account, Incognito, Changelog…) and the new buttons, without scrolling the page
🔄 After an update or a restart, the open window shows “click here to reload”, so the top bar keeps working
👥 NEW “New Window & Account”: open a second window with another account, side by side (turn on “Allow in Incognito” for the extension)
🪟 New Window opens a little to the side, so you see both windows
🎨 Theme – Skin Color reworked: the skin covers the whole site while the top bar and menus keep their colours, “None” really clears it and “Invert” is now a real dark mode 🌙
📰 Google News: the topic tabs and the side menu sit right under the top bar, nothing is cut
📰 MSN: the header and the menu sit right under the top bar
📰 BuzzFeed: the menu that sticks when you scroll no longer hides under the top bar
🔗 Right-click › “Open in News Hub kiosk” now also on Tasty and BuzzFeed News links
🐞 Round of Bugfixes: the top bar shows on the first open, SideBar/WideBar work at the first click after you resize the window, Screenshot always takes the extension window
🖼️ News & Tips: pictures load on every site and the messages show at most once a day
🎓 Mini tutorial and popup buttons look right on every site
📐 Top bar: the menu button sits in line with the other buttons on every site, and nothing under the bar blocks clicks on the page
🔒 Security improvements and no more warnings on the extension’s Errors page

“notifications” – Used to send desktop notifications. For example when a new message arrives or the App is updated.

“contextMenus” – Allows adding more settings when you right-click the App icon in the browser toolbar and in the browser context menu, for example to open links in the App when you right-click them.

“storage” – Used to save settings on your local computer.

“scripting” – Used to be able to insert JS or CSS on the required host/domains: the Extension top bar, side menu, themes and the layout fixes that make the site fit the Extension window.

“system.display” – Used to detect the display size and position the Extension window (SideBar, WideBar and the second window of Multi Window – Account).

“unlimitedStorage” – Storage is limited to 5MB of data that may not be enough to store all configs.

“host_permissions” – Permission to access some hosts/domains that we must modify in order to provide the desired functionality detailed above. It also allows you to share content (links or text) from other pages directly inside the App and share it to social media for example. Also used to allow intercommunication with other WWEvents Apps (i.e. Emojis).

“activeTab” – Permission to access the window where the Extension is running and that is shown to the user, for example to take a screenshot of it.

“all_urls” – Permission required for users to be able to take screenshots of the current window – captureVisibleTab.

“declarativeNetRequest” – Used to get the mobile version of the websites (lighter, faster and a perfect fit for the SideBar) by changing some request headers such as the User-Agent. Only impacts the Extension Window.

“declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess” – Used to get the mobile version of the websites. Only impacts the Extension Window.

“declarativeNetRequestFeedback” – Used to get the mobile version of the website by changing the User-Agent.