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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By: su.atul.vi

Users: 5,000+

Rating: 4.66

(68)

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

Creation date: 2020-06-21

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Overrides new tab: Yes

Size: 811.01K

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

Ranking

# 13,795 ▼ 202

Other rankings

#279 in Functionality & UI

#8 in changelog keyword 54 ▲ 1

#124 in new tab keyword 90

#133 in widget keyword 70 ▲ 57

#239 in source keyword 11 ▲ 4

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Extension summary

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Try before you install it: https://avinayak.github.io/minim/ Source: https://github.com/avinayak/minim

Choose from a large collection of Background Colors & Gradients.
Infinite selection of Curated Background Images from Unsplash.
Clock / Personal Message / Weather.
Zero Analytics / Data Collection. Needs no permissions whatsoever.
Open Source.

Please support my work at https://ko-fi.com/atulvinayak

Changelog v3.0.91

Fixed issues with 24 hour clock

Changelog v3.0.79

User reviews

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Pros

Simplicity and minimalism
Beautiful and elegant design
Highly customizable options
Good quality backgrounds
Overall great functionality as a new tab extension

Cons

Lack of a search bar
Confusing settings location
Weather widget needs improvement
Limited weather location specificity
Desire for additional features like "most visited sites" or choice of weather engine

Most mentioned

Need for a search bar
Settings location is confusing
Weather widget lacks state specification

User reviews

Joey __, 2025-01-05

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.