Minim: A minimal newtab

A minimal newtab for Chrome

Minim: A Minimal Newtab Chrome Extension

Minim: A minimal newtab is a Chrome extension that offers a minimalistic new tab experience with a large collection of background colors and gradients, curated background images from Unsplash, and customizable widgets for clock, personal message, and weather. It is open source, privacy-focused, and constantly updated with new features and fixes.

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Extension stats

By: su.atul.vi

Users: 5,000+

Rating: 4.62

(69)

Version: 3.0.107 (Last updated: 2024-07-17)

Creation date: 2020-06-21

Size: 811.01K

Email: su*****@gmail.com

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 13,519 ▲ 20

Other rankings

#280 in Functionality & UI #9 in changelog keyword 18 ▲ 1 #124 in new tab keyword 49 ▲ 5 #127 in widget keyword 13 ▼ 1 #278 in custom font keyword 33 ▲ 4

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Simplicity and minimalism
Fast loading times
Beautiful and elegant design
Customizable features
Nice backgrounds and aesthetics

Cons

Issues with the weather display (location specification)
Difficulty in finding settings
Bugs with the clock display
Recent updates added too many features, cluttering the interface
Some customization options are distracting

Most mentioned

Desire for a weather display
Need for a search bar
Issue with finding the settings
Requests for more customization options
Complaints about recent updates changing the extension's nature

User reviews

There is no weather being displayed. The settings have no option to add weather. Also, the font for the time is extremely large. There are options to change the font but no option to change the size of the font. It is a simple page and it does load fast but would be better if there was a weather display and the ability to change the size of the font.

Michael Alan, 2025-02-02

I enjoy the simplicity of this. I'm replacing a similar extension that will soon be rendered dead from MV2. The one issue I have is with regard to the Weather widget, when selecting a location it does not specify a state for cities in the US, making it very difficult when there are several cities that share the same name across the country. I cannot specify even the Zip Code as an alternative. If a fix can be readily prepared and applied for this, that would be wonderful. Knowing that the extension uses Open Weather Map for this data, would also be happy with the input accepting the OW city id - or at the very least exposing it in the dropdown selection for comparison.

Nu Ji, 2025-01-03

I love it; by far the best new tab.

Yossi ツ, 2024-12-30

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Minim: A minimal newtab requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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

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Risk likelihood analysis details

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