# Spruce - New Tab Backgrounds

> High resolution backgrounds for your new tab page.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `spruce`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Matt Becker
- **Category:** appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-08-06
- **First published:** 2019-04-03
- **Size:** 221 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/spruce/)

## Description

Spruce - New Tab Backgrounds is a lightweight Firefox add-on that adds a regularly updated, randomised background to your new tab page. It allows you to customize the background by adding a keyword filter, adjusting image quality, and selecting the frequency of background changes.

## Rankings

- #47,370 — Overall
- #89 — hd backgrounds
- #110 — background

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `topSites`
- `storage`
- `webRequest`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- 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/spruce)