NoteTab - Notepad in the Homepage

Entire New Tab is a notepad for your remarks. Make different notes right in the New Tab

What is NoteTab - Notepad in the Homepage?

NoteTab - Notepad in the Homepage is a Chrome extension that allows you to use your New Tab as a full-service notepad. With this extension, you can quickly write, edit, and organize notes, manage bookmarks and to-do tasks, right in your Chrome start page. It also links you to your email, history, downloads and other apps for efficient browsing and enhanced productivity. The search bar within the extension uses the Bing search engine to deliver results.

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Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-09-29

By: http://notetab.li

Users: 8,211+

Rating: 4.58 (547)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2023-06-13)

Creation date: 2020-05-11

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Overrides new tab: Yes

Overrides search engine: Yes

Permissions:

bookmarks
storage
unlimitedStorage
tabs
notifications
alarms
https://sshot.org/*
chrome://favicon/*

Size: 515.07K

Email: fr*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Extension summary

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Do you always need to make various notes? It's an option exactly for you. The New Tab is a Notepad! Open the homepage to make remarks or find already saved notes. Use the whole New Tab as a blank page to tape the thoughts or plans. Use editing to create a structure or section. Add links to your text or set a schedule. All these are called NoteTab - your amazing homepage with a notepad.

The New Tab as a notepad to write comments quickly with extended opportunities. This incredible Start Page has quick access to email, history, downloads and other apps. Here are gathered most using points and put in one place to make browsing more convenient and productive. Keep bookmarks in a simple touch and use search for quick navigation across saved links.

Some useful features:

Edit, save and organize notes directly in the Start page. Rename saved tabs, change fonts, colors, etc.
Easy access to bookmarks on the homepage is also available. Bookmarks with a search bar allows you to find items quickly from the list of various websites.
ToDo list helps you to manage important events and deals. Add title, time, date and be always updated with upcoming items.
Searching from the search bar gets results from the Bing search engine through redirection of the “https://notetab.li/search?q="".

NoteTab is a customized new tab for Chrome browser that will make the browsing experience better and efficient. Open a New Tab and use it as you use notepad, only better.

User reviews

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Pros

Useful for making quick notes
Has many memo app features (changing font size, underlining, changing color, bolding text)
Allows for search functionality in notes
Nice design

Cons

Changes default search engine to Bing without user discretion
Alleged privacy concerns and spying of search queries
Doesn't allow modification of font or theme
Some users report it does not function or their notes disappear

Most mentioned

Changes default search engine to Bing
Privacy concerns
Useful for note-taking
Doesn't allow modification of design elements

User reviews

Can't change font size and others say it's not safe spies on your search queries.

Bryan “Ironman” Stark, 2023-08-23

It spies on search queries! After checking the source code, found multiple privacy concerning features of this extension. First of all, it overrides the browsers default search engine with one linked to it's own address (https://notetab.li/search?q={searchTerms}), but then it simply redirects you to bing.com. If I hadn't looked closely at the code, I wouldn't have noticed that that my queries are not going to the search engine directly but are being channeled through a third party. None of this was explicitly mentioned in the privacy policy, which is something I am very concerned about. Please provide a clear explanation as to why channeling search queries through your own website is necessary, and if it is for the sake of "collecting data to improve the extension", please add an option to opt out of it and send the queries directly to the browsers default search engine. EDIT: I decided to take this matter into my own hands and create a github repo where I attempted to remove all the bad stuff from this extension, you can go there and download a clean version of this extension. https://github.com/RatoGBM/PrivateNoteTab Features I added/changed: - no "spyware" I described above - it doesn't force you to use Bing or any other search engine - it is a bit harder to install/set up

rato GbM (ratoGbM), 2023-08-02

This extension is a browser hijacker and changes your default search engine to a version of Bing although not the official Bing. It is keeping all your search requests. It is not a real search engine. This extension completely misrepresents itself which is sad because it has cool features and nice design but it has bad intentions. Do not install.

Randy J Robbins, 2023-07-27

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Extension safety

Risk impact

NoteTab - Notepad in the Homepage requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.