Show me your New Tab

I use about:blank (empty page) via this extension. [0]

I don't need a new distraction every time I open a new tab.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...

I use the Tabliss[1] add-on as my new tab and set it to show me a new unsplash background every time instead of every 15 minutes by default and to show me the local weather in the middle. Looks like this right now: https://i.imgur.com/YRGD0gB.png

[1]: https://tabliss.io/

I wrote a small page that displays a list of "favorites" supplied by the query string that I can "click" with a given keyboard shortcut[1]. This lets me just do followed by "0" to go to my first shortcut, "1", for the second, and then going into letters with "a", "b", "c", "d", etc. if there are more than ten (I've never had anywhere close to 36 things that I check often enough to want a minimal shortcut too, but I'm sure someone with the need could come up with some way to modify it to work in a way they liked). I had a Chrome extension that provided a new tab page like this years ago, but when switching to Firefox and not finding something similar, I realized that it wouldn't be too hard to implement it in a browser-independent way.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/saghm/6caf46436f204199d622d6c4d6a41c...

When I gave up social media sites, I created a little site that has some blogs and sites that are interesting to look at, and my new tab page is set to that.

Yahoo initially began as a links directory, and I thought that was a nice idea, so I made Yayhoo: https://bmsauer.github.io/yayhoo/

I like it a lot. I probably need to update it because I haven't done so in a while.

As I own "old" hardware - iPhone 7; MBA (2017) i5/8GB/256; iPad Air (3rd gen) - I always use a blank page as both start page and new tab.

I've found the overhead in processing the "smart" widgets/links makes the device feel much slower, and was a constant reminder how "old" my hardware is.

https://papier.app/ I find it good for keeping temporary notes and to do lists. More than anything I am opening new tabs so it's great to remind me. I us nvAlt for note taking and it's quite a natural extension.

On Chrome (browser I use for development) I use the Google Arts & Culture Extension, to have see something nice while working (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-arts-cultur...)

On Firefox (my main browser for all non-dev related things) I just use the main screen with the shortcuts - some of them sticky, most are just often visited pages gathered by the browser itself

Empty dark page (technically it’s a speeddial with no items because about:blank is too bright). I transitioned from using speeddial to bookmarks bar with links and folders instead, middle-clicking them to open in a new tab.

Ctrl-t only for web and history searches.

Why: new tab is a “click into unknown” ui pattern. With bookmarks bar I see the target right away (unless it’s in a folder ofc). It’s not even that faster, but feels more predictable.

Mine is

I tend to gravitate towards an empty page, or just leave the default of 'most visited'. For Firefox I disable Pocket and everything, I only really benefit from shortcuts to where I go most

I would enjoy moving these features out of my launcher (and the new tab page seems fine): calculator, unit conversion

All of that said, I don't really want a lot. I browse by typing what I wish to visit

I used Papier, which is a Chrome extension that turns your new tab into a Markdown editor. I use it as my scratchpad.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl...

My custom new tab showing my company's metric updated daily [0]

[0] https://p1asm0.notion.site/Change-Logs-1781b2744e61495ba6e87...

https://i.postimg.cc/q7HP7JHn/Screenshot-20230131-080451-Fir...

https://i.ibb.co/s9LPd4m/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-16-21-55.p...

Using A Fine Start [1], with a collection of links to frequently used sites.

[1]: https://afinestart.me/

I'll start :-)

https://i.postimg.cc/9XLZ8mCx/image.png

https://papier.app/ // really enjoy its simplicity

https://momentumdash.com/

https://bonjourr.fr

Cool idea, how would it work on mobile?

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