Set it as your home page

Home Screen is a normal web page served from your machine, so any browser can use it. These steps are for Chrome; other browsers have equivalent settings.

The home button

1. Open Settings → Appearance.
2. Turn on Show home button.
3. Choose Enter custom web address and enter http://localhost:7878.

When Chrome starts

1. Open Settings → On startup.
2. Choose Open a specific page or set of pages.
3. Add http://localhost:7878.

New tabs

Chrome does not allow a normal setting to replace the New Tab page. If you want Home Screen on every new tab, use a small “new tab redirect” extension of your choice and point it at http://localhost:7878, or just use the home button (Alt+Home).

Tips

• Use localhost or 127.0.0.1 consistently. The address is part of where your browser stores the launcher’s history, and the curl runner only works from those two addresses.
• If you change the port (options), update the address here, or Chrome will show an error page.
• If the program is not running, the page will not load. Start it with Windows so it is always there.