nightTab

Name: nightTab
Rating: 4.714285714285714 (427 reviews)
Author: zombieFox

A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour. Customise the layout, style, background and bookmarks in nightTab.

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nightTab is a customizable Chrome extension that replaces your new tab page with a neutral and sleek design accented by your chosen color. It features a display showing the current time and date, a versatile search bar, and supports any number of bookmark tiles organized into groups for easy navigation.

Users can personalize the layout, select background images or videos, customize themes, fonts, and accent colors to tailor the new tab experience to their liking. Plus, nightTab allows backing up your setup locally to ensure your settings are always safe. Importantly, nightTab respects your privacy and does not collect or use any personal or browser data.

Extension Productivity Privacy & Security Utilities

By:: zombieFox
Users:: 100,000
Rating:: 4.71

(427)
Version:: 7.5.0 Last updated: 2024-06-17
Creation date:: 2020-06-16
Risk:: Low risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Size:: 1.19MB
Email:: ko*****@gmail.com
URLs:: Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Data ingested on:: 2025-07-08

Ranking

# 1,602 ▲ 10

Other rankings

#149 in Workflow & Planning #110 in search bar keyword 18 ▼ 11

Other platforms

nightTab (v7.3.0)

4,269 4.85

(192)

User reviews

Users appreciate nightTab for its high customization, clean and attractive interface, and stable performance. Many have used it for years and praise features like layout presets and unique wallpapers. However, recurring issues include lack of some desired features (like conditional bookmarks bar), no incognito mode support, and occasional bugs such as background images failing to load or accidental data loss during editing. Overall, it is a popular extension with room for improvement in feature completeness and stability.

Pros

Highly customizable with great layout and visual options.
Provides a clean and fancy new tab experience, enhancing browser aesthetics.
Allows use of unique features like uploading videos as live wallpapers.
Stable performance without lagging the PC.
Supports saving presets for restoring settings after reinstalling.

Cons

Lacks certain desired features like conditional bookmarks bar visibility on new tab pages.
Does not work in incognito mode despite permission settings.
Occasional functionality issues, e.g., Unsplash backgrounds not loading.
Data loss when editing if cursor moves outside the frame.
Some confusion over search options, wanting to customize search bar preferences.

Recent reviews

Excellent extension. Using it for past 5-6 years. I don't think I can operate anymore without it.

Mr*****, 2025-04-02

this made my desktop, browser so fancy

Ng*****, 2025-03-31

resetuje sie samo

Mi*****, 2025-03-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

nightTab requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Medium Can alter new tab settings; fairly benign but with some capability to affect user experience.

Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Chrome extension.

nightTab has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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