New Tab Redux

New Tab Redux

A custom New Tab page, providing a quick, customizable layout of links and menus, as well as simple bookmark and history components.

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What is New Tab Redux?
New Tab Redux is a customisable Chrome extension that provides a user-configured layout of links and menus. It offers features like note-taking, stopwatch, bookmarks, history, and customizable backgrounds. You can export and share your configuration with colleagues and backup your settings.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 71 ▼ -7
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 1.15.1 (Last updated: 2024-02-01)
Creation date: 2021-07-03
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Permissions:
  • fontSettings
  • storage
Size: 2.32M
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Summary

A customisable New Tab page, providing a user-configured layout of links and menus. Additionally, widgets allow you to quickly take notes or start a stopwatch all from just opening a new tab. Access to bookmarks, history, and notifications is also available. Given permission, baskets and notifications from external websites can be shown.

The style of the page can be thoroughly customised including background images and icons for each link. Backgrounds can be dynamically pulled and change every few hours, giving you a fresh landscape or city to look at. Alternatively, you can see featured images from Google Earth or NASA in the background.

Once you have a configuration, it can be exported to share with colleagues for them to import and use. This also allows you to backup your configuration.

Based upon the work of Terrance on Homely, this extension takes the existing open source extension and extends it further. This extension is not affiliated with Homely, it only builds upon the existing open source foundation.

Safety
Risk impact

New Tab Redux is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

New Tab Redux is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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