Rainy night

This extension provides a nice 'rain' effect on your splash page.
What is Rainy night?
'Rainy night' is an innovative Chrome extension bringing a visual rain effect to your tab splash pages. It chooses random rain-themed images from an Imgur album, displaying a fresh view with every new tab. You can also use a custom Imgur album. The app supports offline use, supplying a fallback image when offline. Future features include local weather display on the page and data caching for faster loading.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.33 (43)
Version: 0.2.2 (Last updated: 2014-09-15)
Creation date: 2014-09-15
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Size: 2.81M

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Extension summary

The rain effect is live and looks very realistic.

The app pulls rainy themed images from an imgur album that I add items to (you can change it to any imgur album, however!). Each time you open a new tab, a random image from the album will load (unless you're offline where a fallback will be used).

Please submit new images for the imgur album through the issue tracker on Github!

This app is very new, and there's lots of room for improvement! I am probably going to add support for local weather on the page, and conduct an analysis on caching data for faster load upon opening a page.

Thanks for looking! :-) Check out the project on Github if you're a developer.

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Beautiful background imagery
  • Creates a calming atmosphere reminiscent of a rainy day
  • Easy to use and start with new tabs
  • Good screensaver replacement for Chromebooks
  • Simplicity with limited options enhances user experience
Cons
  • Images can appear stretched
  • May consume a lot of memory after some time
  • Choppy rain effect
  • Limited instructional guidance for new users
Most mentioned
  • Great job
  • Love this extension
  • Simple and beautiful
  • Ruins productivity
  • Nice to have a relaxing background
Recent reviews
My favorite extension. Great job! Thanks.
by James F. Dobrow, 2019-08-06

The background is really nice. The only problem is that sometimes the images are a little stretched. Other than that, its a great extension.
by baller, 2019-05-22

開了兩分鐘後開始把記憶體吃到滿??黑人問號
by 夯特, 2018-09-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Rainy night is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Rainy night has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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