# Material You NewTab Theme

> Transform your default New Tab page with 'Material You NewTab,' featuring a sleek new design inspired by Google's Material You design.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/material-you-newtab](https://chrome-stats.com/d/material-you-newtab)

## Overview

- **ID:** `material-you-newtab`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** XengShi
- **Daily users:** 2,375
- **Weekly downloads:** 306
- **Rating:** 4.59 / 5 (49 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-02
- **First published:** 2023-09-09
- **Size:** 331 KB
- **Data as of:** 2025-07-21
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/material-you-newtab/)

## Description

**Material You NewTab** transforms your default new tab page into a sleek, customizable experience inspired by Google's Material You design. It showcases **real-time weather updates** with city, temperature, and humidity details to keep you informed at a glance. The extension offers **flexible search options**, allowing you to choose from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, YouTube, and more with just a click, combined with **smart search suggestions** for quicker results.

Personalization is key with options to adjust color themes, add personalized text, pick between analog or digital clocks, and add favorite shortcuts for easy access. With **multi-language support** including Hindi, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Vietnamese, and others, it caters to a diverse user base. Whether for enhanced productivity or a stylish browser look, Material You NewTab delivers both convenience and personalization.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `bookmarks`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very high risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Access to bookmarks may provide insights into user preferences and interests but generally carries low risk.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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## Review summary

Users appreciate the Material You NewTab Theme's beautiful and functional design, finding it an improvement over Firefox's default new tab page. However, multiple reviews highlight limitations such as restricted shortcut customization and inability to add custom search engines. Several users report bugs with features like the digital clock and weather widget, as well as compatibility problems with the latest version. Overall, while the add-on is visually appealing and useful, it needs improvements in customization and stability.

### Pros

- Visually attractive and beautiful user interface.
- Provides a more useful and better experience than the default Firefox New Tab page.
- Includes useful widgets such as shortcuts and AI tools.
- Generally well received by users who appreciate its design and functionality.

### Cons

- Limited customization options: cannot customize shortcut positions or number beyond a limit.
- Search engine customization is not supported; users cannot add their own search engines.
- Some features have bugs or issues such as the digital clock causing the screen to disappear.
- Compatibility issues with recent updates (version 3.0) causing the add-on not to work for some users.
- The weather widget appears to be broken in Firefox version.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/material-you-newtab)