Minimal New Tab Clock

A simple, ultra-lightweight clock to replace your tab menu.

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Minimal New Tab Clock is a simple and ultra-lightweight Chrome extension that replaces your new tab page with a clean, minimal clock. With minimal settings and fuss, it offers both analogue and 12-hour digital clock displays along with a dark theme and customizable colors. The extension continually improves performance, supports scaling and responsive design, and includes convenient keyboard controls.

Recent updates add font customization, the ability to hide seconds, improved support for e-ink displays, and a theme picker with HEX and HSL color inputs for full personalization. Minimal New Tab Clock ensures a sleek, distraction-free time display directly on your browser's new tab, optimized for performance and user experience.

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By:: https://rainbowlemon.co.uk
Users:: 10,000
Rating:: 4.49

(152)
Version:: 1.8.1 Last updated: 2023-08-25
Creation date:: 2019-10-06
Risk:: Low risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Size:: 73.97KB
Email:: ai*****@gmail.com
URLs:: Website
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 7,034 ▲ 92

Other rankings

#279 in Functionality & UI

#5 in second-h`nd keyword 8 ▼ 1

#5 in second-hand keyword 12

#13 in clock keyword 34

#108 in new tab keyword 48 ▼ 5

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User reviews

Users appreciate the Minimal New Tab Clock for its minimalistic, sleek design, quick loading, and color customization options. It offers both analogue and digital displays with date. However, common issues include inability to access the bookmarks bar on new tabs, no option to hide the date, lack of font and clock size customization, inability to hide seconds, and limited background choices.

Pros

Minimalistic and sleek design without distractions
Ability to choose colors for personalization
Offers both analogue and digital clock display options
Loads quickly and improves new tab performance
Simple and functional for users who want just a clock and date

Cons

Cannot access the bookmarks bar on new tab page
No option to hide the date display
Lack of clock size adjustment and font customization
No option to hide seconds or other clock details
Limited preset backgrounds and difficulty in exact color matching

Recent reviews

Loved it but dislike when I can't access my bookmarks bar. Please enable bookmarks bar when opening new tab.

Ly*****, 2025-03-25

Overall pretty great. Picking colors is pretty much all I was looking for compared to other extentsions. I like the design, but is it possible to hide the date text? I would also like to hide the dots circling the edges of the clock, is this possible as well? thanks

Bi*****, 2024-09-03

As advertised, it is DEFINITELY MINIMAL. Only 8 preset backgrounds, but you can mess with hex if you wish. Offers analogue or digital (listed as 12h or 24h), defaults to display seconds, but has a check box to remove them. Are all these developers European or Asian? And is the convention to show PM in front instead of in back there? (Have seen this on two apps... in US we usually put the AM/PM following - no biggie, just a little disorienting). Displays date by default with no option to remove it. And my biggest pet peeves... *CAN'T SIZE OR CHANGE THE FONT*, so no accessibility built in. I can't read it easily, and really want to be able to control my font style, color and size. Sorry... continuing to look for a clock that does a bit more.

Ca*****, 2024-08-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Minimal New Tab Clock 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

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Minimal New Tab Clock 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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