Tab of Life

John Conway's game of life for your new tabs
What is Tab of Life?
Tab of Life is a Chrome extension that brings John Conway's game of life to your new tabs. Witness the emergent complexity that simple rules can bring through this captivating experience.

Extension stats

By: John Doty
Users: 94 ▲ 3
Rating: 4.00 (9)
Version: 0.0.3 (Last updated: 2014-10-30)
Creation date: 2014-10-29
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Size: 6.86K

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Extension summary

Do you suffer from overpowering ennui when witnessing Google app icons every time you hit Command T?

Are you tired of looking at awe inspiring pictures of nature every time you open a new tab?

Surely you are fatigued by motivational quotes that seek to catalyze you towards making drastic changes to your life?

Why not have life itself!!!

Tab of life brings everyone’s favorite cellular automata, John Conway’s game of life to your new tabs. Sit entranced, mouth agape, at the incredible emergent complexity that the iterative application of simple rules brings.

Now available at a Chrome Store near you!

User reviews

Love this! But the sad part is when it ends. :(
by Isaac Dunlap, 2016-07-28

Its pretty cool, but it would be better if you could open the tab manually instead of automatically or have a search tab; besides that, I loved it.
by Andrew Wilson, 2016-01-04

Very cute, and brings back fond memories of early CS classes. :) I would like to have user settings such as speed, seed density, foreground/background color though.
by St M, 2014-10-30
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Tab of Life requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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