Humble New Tab Page

Redesigned new tab page featuring your bookmarks, apps, most visited, and recently closed in a custom layout.
What is Humble New Tab Page?
Humble New Tab Page is a Chrome extension focused on enhancing your browsing experience. It replaces the default new tab page with a clean, fully customizable layout that includes your bookmarks, apps, most visited sites, and recently closed tabs. Using a simple drag and drop function, folders can be arranged or reordered as desired. The design is fast-loading, lightweight and allows a high degree of personalization, including adjustments to the font, colors, and spacing. It is supported by a long history of versions, each refining and expanding its features for optimized user comfort.

Extension stats

Users: 30,000+
Rating: 4.74 (1,077)
Version: 1.26.1 (Last updated: 2023-10-16)
Creation date: 2019-02-10
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Overrides new tab: Yes
Permissions:
  • bookmarks
  • favicon
  • topSites
  • tabs
  • fontSettings
  • sessions
Size: 36.47K

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Humble New Tab Page (v1.26)
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Extension summary

Features: • Simple, clean design • Highly customizable • Fast loading and lightweight

This extension replaces the default new tab page. Drag and drop folders to create new columns or reorder them. The font, colors, spacing, and more can be customized from the options menu.

The source code is available under the MIT license github.com/ibillingsley/HumbleNewTabPage

Changelog:

Version 1.26.1 - October 15, 2023 • Fixed navigating to file:/// URLs (enable "Allow access to file URLs" in Manage Extensions > Details)

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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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Simple and efficient interface
  • Customization options for fonts and colors
  • Easy access to bookmarks and recently closed tabs
  • Fast performance
  • Responsive and smooth display of bookmarks
Cons
  • Inability to rearrange bookmarks by dragging
  • Settings not syncing across devices
  • Lack of night mode option
  • Cannot open local files
  • Limited visual appeal and UI design
Most mentioned
  • Customization and usability
  • Integration with bookmarks
  • Performance speed
  • Need for additional features like night mode and tab groups
Recent reviews
At Tooltivity.com, we manually test productivity browser extensions and provide honest and detailed reviews. Humble New Tab received an impressive rating of 8.5 in our tests. In our evaluation, we considered the categories of features, design, ease of use, security & privacy, value for money and performance. You can find the full test report here: https://tooltivity.com/extensions/humble-new-tab
by Nils Bongarts, 2024-11-16

Everythings is perfect, Thanks!. I just whish if you could add the ability to update the favicon for bookmarked links.
by Mohammad Jalal, 2024-10-22

시작화면엔 이것저것 붙어있는 거 필요없고 즐겨찾기만 있으면 됨. 실행속도도 가장 빠름. 이거 설치한 참에 즐겨찾기도 정리하고 좋구만요. ctrl+shift+b 하면 즐겨찾기 나타났다가 사라졌다 함. ctrl+t 하면 새창 뜨고
by GJ Lee, 2024-10-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Humble New Tab Page requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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