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Re-newtab

by Jackie(Guokai) Han

v8.0.2 Updated May 6, 2024 1.43MiB
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3K
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★ 4.75
109 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over a year ⚠️Requests 2 sensitive permissions Highly rated

Description

Overview: This extension provides 19 desktop widgets, plus bookmarks manager, history manager, extensions manager, downloaded files manager and quick search function in your new tab page (so chrome will show you these permissions when you install it). The core idea of this extension is to help user quickly find web pages that you want to open. The home panel shows links, information and functions by different widgets. Of course, you can customize these widgets. Sometimes if you just want to see a wallpaper on new tab, there is a wallpaper mode that hide all elements on the page and only show the wallpaper and a toggle button. Version 8.0.0 (March 2023) Updates: • Remove weather widget. • Remove Chrome Apps related functions. • Upgrade to Chrome Manifest V3. 0. Quick Search You can use keyboard shortcuts to search for bookmarks, history, opened tabs and downloaded files, similar to Alfred. 1. Home Panel Home panel contains many versatile widgets(cards), like clock, calendar, recently closed tabs. You can add/remove widgets, drag and drop widget to a new position, change widget's title and color. Main widgets: • Most Visited: show default newtab most visited pages. • Bookmarks Bar: show Bookmarks. • Todo List: a simple but powerful todo(task) list. • Opened Tabs: a simple tabs manager, which shows all current opened tabs. You can jump to or close a tab by click, and more functions in context menu. • Recently Closed: recently closed tabs. • Analog clock and digital clock: highly customizable clocks. • Calendar: A month view calendar. • Calculator: A super calculator powered by math.js. • Google Drive widget: quick access recent, starred, shared drive files or search files. • Google Calendar widget: list your Google Calendar events. • Translate: a Google Translate widget. • Notepad: a simple notepad. • Search Engine: search via your browser's default search provider. • YouTube Subscriptions: list video updates for all your subscriptions. • Google Sites: top google services. • Office: ms office web apps. • Chrome Misc: chrome internal pages. 2. Bookmarks Manager Bookmarks are an important concept, because they are your own collections and what you need. This extension provides a more productive bookmarks manager. Similar to Mac Finder in columns view, you can manage and navigate bookmarks by mouse or keyboard shortcuts, for example: • Navigate all bookmarks using mouse or arrow keys. • Open a bookmark by double click or enter key. • Open all bookmarks in a folder by context menu. • Drag and Drop a bookmark to a new location. • Create, edit or delete bookmark or folder by context menu. • Select multi bookmarks to move, delete or open. • Copy/cut/paste bookmarks(except folders) by shortcuts. • Sort bookmarks by name • Support many keyboard shortcuts. 3. History Manager Search or clear browsing history by date range. 4. Downloads Manager Show your downloaded files. You can open downloaded files or open their folders, and clear download history. 5. Devices Show synced open tabs on other devices. 6. Extensions Manager Manage all extensions and apps. You can enable/disable/remove the extensions and open their options. 7. Settings • User login, logout. • Theme settings: Pure colors or Wallpapers or Custom photo. Issue feedback or feature request: https://goo.gl/forms/YOOG4TTkaY2lIbBv2 Contact author: guokai.dev+newtab@gmail.com
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Reviews (4 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-11
Kevin Larson

Dang. I have loved this extension for years! But as of last week, this extension no longer works. Hopefully it gets updated soon - at which point, I will change my rating back to 5 stars =D

★★★☆☆2023-04-09
Mark J Galea

The idea is good but the execution can be better. There is no Google Weather widget, for example. This extension also lacks the functionality to add sites of your choice (instead, you have to bookmark them and go through the bookmarks' widget). It would also be great to have a bit of themeng options rather than the white (there is no dark theme!) and blue. The design is late 1990s early 2000s and pre-material design by Google! With a bit of extra effort, this can be a truly great extension.

★★★☆☆2023-04-02
Venkat Sai Ram

please add dark theme. not the one in custom theme. proper dark theme. please

★★★☆☆2022-08-08
dan smith

had promise, but I can't stand all the widgets having a white background…

Permissions (13)

Permissions

bookmarks Can read and modify your bookmarks downloads Can manage and monitor downloads downloads.openfavicon history Can read and modify your browsing history identity Can use your Google account identity management Can manage other installed extensions search sessions Can access recently closed tabs and windows storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs topSites Can access your most visited sites unlimitedStorage

Details

Version 8.0.2
Updated May 6, 2024
Size 1.43MiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026

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