Helium

A new, new tab

What is Helium?

Helium is a very lightweight Chrome extension that replaces your old tab page with an information dashboard. It provides weather, a greeting, the time, bookmarks, and reddit. You can also add daily links to a designated folder in your bookmarks.

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By: Elijah Rotholtz

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Users: 336 ▲ 12

Rating: 3.00 (7)

Version: 0.1.6 (Last updated: 2016-07-09)

Creation date: 2016-07-08

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Overrides new tab: Yes

Permissions:

bookmarks
http://api.openweathermap.org/*
http://reddit/*
geolocation

Size: 91.79K

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 43025 ▲ 531

Other rankings

#13873 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 89

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Summary

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Helium is a very lightweight extension that replaces your old tab page, with an information dashboard. Giving you the weather, a greeting, the time, bookmarks, and reddit.

The extension automatically adds a new folder in your bookmarks, to which you can add your daily links.

User reviews

Neat start screen extension, I especially like the reddit section.

A Google user, 2014-02-16

Nice idea, execution leaves some to be desired. I'd like to be able to set my location manually, or at least save it so it doesn't have to load every time. I'd like to be able to remove the pointless search bar, as the omnibar already serves that purpose. I'd love to be able to choose what subreddit/s are in the reddit section, and I'd love to be able to change the weather to display in Celcius.

A Google user, 2014-02-08

Neat start screen extension, I especially like the reddit section.

A Google user, 2014-02-16

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Safety

Risk impact

Helium may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.