Commons Tab

Commons Tab

Beautiful free images from Wikimedia Commons for your boring chrome tabs

What is Commons Tab?
Commons Tab is a Chrome extension that loads beautiful free images from Wikimedia Commons whenever you open a new tab. It features the best photographs and art from various categories such as astronomy, architecture, birds, and more.
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Stats
Users: 84 ▼ -8
Rating: 5.00 (3)
Version: 0.0.5 (Last updated: 2016-03-19)
Creation date: 2016-03-18
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/*
Size: 220.16K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Each time you open a tab, it will load a nice big image from among the best photographs and art on Wikimedia Commons. The photographs are from featured categories, such as astronomy, architecture, birds, and a few cool diagrams. Enjoy!

User reviews
LOVE IT! SEXY AS OBAMA
by Rus Hoffman Rus Hoffman, 2015-05-31

This is a great idea! Maybe if you added caching so that users don't have to wait for images to load, it would be better!
by Tony Tony, 2015-04-25

Beautiful pictures every time you open a new tab!
by Barbara LaPorte Barbara LaPorte, 2015-03-19
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Safety
Risk impact

Commons Tab is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Commons Tab has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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