NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day New Tab

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day New Tab
What is NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day New Tab?
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day New Tab is a Chrome extension that transforms your new tab into a personal dashboard featuring the astronomy picture of the day from NASA. The new tab hosts a range of features such as a search bar, sticky notes, timer, calculator widgets, date/time configurations, and navigational shortcuts. It also allows for customizability such as configurable search options, toggle features, and theme light/dark options.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.75 (12)
Version: 1.0.5 (Last updated: 2023-06-24)
Creation date: 2023-01-29
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Overrides new tab: Yes
Size: 2.18M

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day New Tab (v2024.1.24.2015)
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Extension summary

Sets your new tab page to a personal dashboard that displays the NASA astronomy picture of the day (APOD). This new tab page is beautiful, educational, and feature rich.

The new tab page comes with a search bar supporting configurable search options to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, You, Amazon, Walmart and eBay. You can create draggable and minimizable sticky notes. Timer and Desmos calculator widgets are available. Date and time can be configured. Shortcuts are set to most visited websites but can be edited. The position of them can be set to the center or the bottom. In the settings features can be toggled. In the bottom left there is a link to NASA astronomy picture of the day. Available in light and dark themes.

User reviews

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Pros
  • Highly customizable with editing options
  • Includes useful sticky notes feature
  • Provides amazing daily NASA wallpapers
  • Improves the default new tab experience
Cons
  • Loses the voice search option
Most mentioned
  • Really helpful extension
  • Great app
  • Amazing daily NASA wallpapers
  • Sticky notes are very useful
  • Way better than the default new tab
Recent reviews
Great extension, there is a lot of editing and customizing possible.
by Abdelrahmen Atti, 2024-04-21

Really helpful extension
by Drew Seph, 2023-03-27

Great app. The sticky notes are very useful. Author clearly took a lot of time to make this. Way better then the default new tab.
by Joanne C, 2023-03-22
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Extension safety

Risk impact

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day New Tab is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day New Tab has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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