# Basic New Tab

> This is an extremely basic new tab extension that has a dark charcoal background and displays the current date and time in the center of the browser window. Also, this code runs 100% client side so it should be very VPN friendly.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/basic-new-tab](https://chrome-stats.com/d/basic-new-tab)

## Overview

- **ID:** `basic-new-tab`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Steve-o Softworks
- **Category:** appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.1
- **Last updated:** 2020-10-06
- **First published:** 2020-10-05
- **Size:** 19 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/basic-new-tab/)

## Description

Basic New Tab is an extremely basic new tab extension for Firefox that replaces the bright white default background with a dark charcoal background. It also displays the current date and time in the center of the browser window. This 100% client-side code ensures VPN compatibility.

## Rankings

- #119,654 — Overall

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Can alter new tab settings; fairly benign but with some capability to affect user experience.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/basic-new-tab)