Installation

Get Yako installed in your browser.

Download the latest release from the Yako releases page on GitHub. Each release includes a ZIP file for every supported browser.

Microsoft Edge

  1. Go to the releases page and download yako-edge.zip from the latest release
  2. Unzip the file to a folder on your computer (e.g. ~/yako-edge)
  3. Open Edge and go to edge://extensions
  4. Enable Developer mode (toggle in the bottom-left corner)
  5. Click Load unpacked and select the folder you unzipped

Google Chrome

  1. Go to the releases page and download yako-chrome.zip from the latest release
  2. Unzip the file to a folder on your computer (e.g. ~/yako-chrome)
  3. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions
  4. Enable Developer mode (toggle in the top-right corner)
  5. Click Load unpacked and select the folder you unzipped

Firefox

  1. Go to the releases page and download yako-firefox.zip from the latest release
  2. Open Firefox and go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
  3. Click Load Temporary Add-on
  4. Select the yako-firefox.zip file directly (no need to unzip)

Note: Temporary add-ons in Firefox are removed when the browser closes. For a permanent install, Yako will need to be published to Firefox Add-ons (coming soon).

Other Chromium Browsers

Brave

Brave is Chromium-based. Download yako-chrome.zip from the releases page, unzip it, then go to brave://extensions, enable Developer mode, and click Load unpacked.

Vivaldi

Vivaldi supports Chrome extensions. Follow the Chrome instructions above using vivaldi://extensions. Note that new window behavior may differ from new tab behavior.

Opera

Opera does not allow extensions to modify its new tab page. A workaround is to use a third-party extension that redirects your new tab to a custom URL.

Updating

To update, download the latest ZIP from the releases page, unzip it to the same folder (replacing the old files), then click the reload button on your browser's extensions page.

Building from source

If you prefer to build from source:

  1. Clone the repository
  2. Install Deno
  3. Run deno install
  4. Run deno task chrome, deno task edge, or deno task firefox
  5. Load the extension from the release/<browser> folder using the steps above