I've been using this one https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-art/oldcmm...
Open a new tab and see a piece of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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#42The most useful extension regarding new tabs is (in my case) this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
What makes it the most useful to you?
Remote work environment involving screen sharing during calls/meetings. As a Firefox user I don't need an extension for this, but I set the new tab page to blank.
I have a separate work profile on my machine, but still, the default page of most frequent / most recent / most whatever pages is too unpredictable for me (i.e. I am not 100% sure how it works and don't want to devote time to understand it completely). I have rarely used it anyway, CTRL+T then typing a letter or two is way faster than trying to spot the relevant box and click it (separate URL / search bars help here as well).
A nice image is cool and all, but it may be too distracting, and then there's the problem of unpredictability again: it comes from a 3rd party (extension developer) using another 3rd party (Bing in this case) to fetch the image. Bing being known for its excellence in the less worksafe areas and all... I won't take my chances :)
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#43What benefit is there to have this as an extension, as opposed to a lightweight page being served up?
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Don't you worry -- Mozilla isn't immune from this. They removed this feature on Firefox for iOS which is super annoying. You can type in new tab page but it's not allowed to be about:blank. Yay installing an empty HTML page on my server just to have basic functionality.
That's odd, it works in Fennec for Android. I wonder if it's a side effect of iOS not actually using Firefox's rendering engine.
I mean, they could surely work around that right? Use something like an empty data:text/html page instead of about:blank if there really is some sort of iOS restriction.
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#45What benefit is there to have this as an extension, as opposed to a lightweight page being served up?
It probably needs to keep state for some of the widgets. Although on a web page there is is localstorage but that's more like a cache than a guaranteed storage.
OP does have a regular page you can use though: https://hello-extension.netlify.com/
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#46It's pretty. Somehow Momentum, which is similar, didn't catch up to me. Is there any way to show the same favorites as with the default Chrome setup, only over the image of the day? :)
Chrome has the option to display an image background on your default new tab page, if you want to keep chrome's favourites.
Correct, I use that. However, it is jus one image and without anything else.
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#47You got a new user. I love it. Great work!