Renewed Tab - New Tab
A customisable New Tab page, with widgets and beautiful backgrounds
What is Renewed Tab - New Tab?
Renewed Tab - New Tab is a Firefox add-on that offers a customizable New Tab page with drag-and-drop widgets, beautiful backgrounds, and support for multiple languages. It provides features like RSS feeds, weather updates, to-do lists, bookmarks, and more. The add-on is privacy-oriented and requires minimal permissions.
Stats
By:
rubenwardy
Creation date:
2021-04-04
Weekly download count:
83
Firefox on Android:
No
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Overrides new tab:
Yes
Overrides home page:
Yes
Permissions:
Size:
1.07M
Email:
rw*****@rubenwardy.com
URLs:
Website
,Privacy policy
Stats date:
Chrome-Stats Rank
#
3224
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Summary
Features
- Drag and Drop Widgets: you can add, move, resize, and configure widgets on a grid using intuitive controls.
- Beautiful Backgrounds: see a random curated background every 15 minutes. You can also choose a solid color, an Unsplash collection, an RSS/Atom feed, or a custom background image.
- Customisable: change the background, the theme, and configure each widget independently.
- Multi-lingual: supports French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Malay, and Turkish. Translations are community-maintained allowing users to contribute support for their language.
- RSS and Atom feeds: can be used to see the news or follow a website.
- Weather
- To do list: track things you need to do.
- Quick Links: show links, with optional icons and subheadings.
- Top Sites: shows your most frequent websites.
- Daily Goals: enter a daily goal.
- Bookmarks: shows bookmarks from the bookmark toolbar.
- Greeting: be greeted based on the time of day.
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Highly customizable
- Open-source
- Ability to add RSS feeds for wallpaper
- Keeps tab page simple with changing background and quotes
Cons
- Auto-refresh nullifies address bar input
- Updates may remove saved layouts
- May require understanding of CSS for further customization
Most mentioned
- Highly customizable
- Open-source
- Constantly changing background and quotes feature
- Ability to add own RSS feeds for wallpaper
- Auto-refresh nullifies address bar input
Recent reviews
Safety
Risk impact
Renewed Tab - New Tab is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Renewed Tab - New Tab is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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