Backdrop (Ambient)

A simple and lightweight new tab extension inspired by Backdrop (Ambient) on Chromecast.

What is Backdrop (Ambient)?

Backdrop (Ambient) is a simple and lightweight Chrome extension inspired by Backdrop (Ambient) on Chromecast. It allows you to customize your new tab with a new wallpaper every day, live weather for your location, and the option to choose between grayscale and colored weather icons. The extension is designed to be lightweight, storing only the current image on your device. It also includes a most visited sites feature. Weather and location data is provided by Here.com, and wallpapers are provided by Bing.com.

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Extension stats

By: https://rotd.be

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 78 ▲ 5

Rating: 5.00 (5)

Version: 1.0.5 (Last updated: 2023-10-24)

Creation date: 2020-06-16

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Overrides new tab: Yes

Permissions:

alarms
storage
geolocation
unlimitedStorage
topSites

Host permissions:

https://*.vandamme.io/*
https://www.bing.com/*

Size: 371.71K

Email: su*****@vandamme.io

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 76549 ▲ 1035

Other rankings

#183 in Functionality & UI #274 in weather keyword 26 ▲ 2 #297 in visited sites keyword 8 ▼ 13

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Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Make your new tab more beautiful and more useful with the following features:

• New wallpaper every day • Live weather for current location (°C/°F) • Choose between grayscale and colored weather icons • Lightweight, only the current image is stored on the device • Most visited sites

The design of the extension is inspired by Backdrop (now Ambient/Daydream) on the Google Chromecast. Users can choose to have the weather displayed with the original grayscale Backdrop icons or the new colorized Ambient icons. We also try to keep the extension as lightweight as possible and thus do not include the wallpapers in the extension.

Weather and location data provided by Here.com Wallpapers provided by Bing.com

User reviews

Often the design of these landing page extensions is ugly, or doesn't work as intended. This extension on the other hand, is really very nicely designed and functional! Simple, but effective.