SimpTab - Minimalistic New Tab

Minimalistic's chrome new tab page extension, hope every time open, you have a good mood.
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SimpTab is a minimalist Chrome extension designed to enhance your new tab experience with simplicity and style. Featuring multiple modes like Daily, Random, Earth background, and more, it refreshes your tab with beautiful wallpapers sourced from bing.com, unsplash.com, flickr.com, and other popular platforms. Customize your experience with bookmarks, a quickbar, shortcut support, and a control bar for easy wallpaper management.

Enjoy Zen Mode and white noise options for a calm workspace, alongside advanced features like custom scripts, CSS, and search to tailor your new tab. Open-source and actively maintained, SimpTab focuses on minimalism and functionality, ensuring every new tab opens with a good mood and productivity.

Manifest V2 Extension Overrides new tab Productivity Design Utilities
By:
Kenshin Wang
Users:
7,000
Rating:
4.63
(185)
Version:
1.5.5 Last updated: 2019-12-04
Creation date:
2019-12-04
Risk:
Moderate risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:
  • topSites
  • storage
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size:
358.00KB
Email:
fx*****@gmail.com
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Chrome Web Store
Data ingested on:
2025-07-09

Ranking

# 10,862 ▲ 112
Other rankings
#627 in Functionality & UI ▼ 1 #27 in include keyword 9 ▲ 7 #114 in changelog keyword 21 ▲ #170 in custom background keyword 23 ▲ 10

User reviews

SimpTab是一款极简风格的Chrome新标签页扩展，界面简洁美观且支持快捷键操作，用户普遍喜欢其全屏图模式和书签美化功能。缺点包括上传图片按钮消失、图片加载慢、某些快捷键不方便使用，以及部分功能在新Edge浏览器上不兼容。此外，语言支持不足也被多用户提及。总体上用户评价较好，希望开发者能持续更新改进体验。
Pros
  • 界面简洁美观，极简主义风格让使用体验舒适。
  • 支持快捷键操作，提升了用户的操作效率。
  • 全屏图模式和图片展示效果好，不会被界面元素遮挡。
  • 支持书签美化功能，增加了实用性。
  • 开源且更新维护，用户认可度高。
Cons
  • 上传图片按钮时常消失，导致无法上传背景图。
  • 图片加载速度较慢，首次打开时可能出现白屏。
  • 部分快捷键设计（如S+空格）不易触发，影响使用体验。
  • 部分链接和功能（如每日地球图片和书签功能在新Edge浏览器）出现无法使用或显示异常的问题。
  • 语言支持不足，英文界面和翻译不完整。
Recent reviews
怎么 135.0.7023.0版本的浏览器不让用了？ 挺好的扩展啊
by 虎皮*****, 2025-03-02
确实很好，好看的标签页能够影响人的心情。
by Th*****, 2023-05-25
正式版 1.5.5怎么打开禅模式
by 王洪*****, 2023-02-24
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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.

SimpTab - Minimalistic New Tab requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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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.

SimpTab - Minimalistic New Tab has earned a fairly good reputation and likely 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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