# NewTab Studio

> Custom Firefox new tab and home page dashboard with floating widgets, wallpapers, RSS, weather, and glass effects.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `newtab-studio`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** James Hanson
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 0.1.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-17
- **First published:** 2026-05-25
- **Size:** 3.59 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/newtab-studio/)

## Description

NewTab Studio turns Firefox's new tab page into a customizable desktop-style dashboard.

Features:
<ul><li>Draggable, resizable widget windows</li><li>Quick Links and Weather enabled by default</li><li>Optional RSS, Pomodoro, Stopwatch, Todo, Quotes, Calendar, Photo, and Embed widgets</li><li>Wallpaper gallery, slideshow support, and glass treatments</li><li>Search and clock block with layout and style controls</li><li>Import/export of your dashboard profile</li></ul>
Dashboard settings, widget layout, timers, wallpapers, and icon overrides are stored locally in Firefox storage. Search queries are sent only to the search engine you choose when you submit the search bar. Weather requests go to Open-Meteo and its geocoding API when you use the weather widget. RSS feeds and favicons are fetched only from URLs you add yourself. NewTab Studio does not send telemetry or sync your dashboard to a developer-controlled server.

Known limitations:
<ul><li>Some third-party embeds may be blocked by provider frame policies.</li><li>Weather and RSS widgets require network access to the services you configure.</li></ul>

## Rankings

- #63,472 — Overall
- #66 — slideshow

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `notifications`
- `geolocation`
- `*://*/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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