With features such as portability, synchronization among multiple devices and customizability, Google Chrome is one of the popular alternate browsers for Windows PC. If you use Chrome browser on your PC, you probably get bored of seeing a white screen every time you open a new tab or window. Here are some Chrome extensions using which you can transform your browser new tab page into an absolute delight.
Chrome extensions to customize & beautify Home & New tab page
1] Bing Wallpaper for Google home page
If you use Google as your default search engine, this extension decorates it with the wonderful Bing wallpaper collection, giving you refreshing look every time you open a new Tab. Even though there are many ways, using which you can set a custom wallpaper to your Google home page, there are two reasons that would favor this extension. One, it uses Bing collection which is famous for high-quality natural photos that are loved by many, and two, it doesn’t effect custom doodles generated by Google on special occasions. You can get Bing Wallpaper for Google Homepage from here.
1] Live Start Page – DreamScene For Chrome
Remember the Windows DreamScene activator utility that allows you to put .gif images and videos as your Windows 7 desktop wallpapers? Live Start Page does exactly that on Chrome. Having its own store, from where you can install motion photos, live backgrounds, and static backgrounds, in different resolutions, this extension can add a lot of variety to your Chrome home or new tab page. While the background is playing gracefully, you can always see speed dials, weather, time and a to-do list. The nice thing here, is that if you are in a mood to just watch the images, you can disable all these in Settings. You can down Live Start Page for Chrome from here.
Now these two extensions will not only fill your browser tab with wallpapers for fun, it will also help you enhance your productivity, in a way, while browsing.
3] Be Limitless
Be Limitless is a great extension to track your time and browsing activities in a New Tab. Using this extension, you can schedule tasks (like meetings, deadlines), set goals (daily, yearly), and it will remind you time to time. Not only that, it will analyze the sites you are browsing and depending on the category a site belongs to, it will give you detailed metrics. This would be of great help to avoid distractions while browsing.
For example, when you are reading a Wiki article, you get a social notification and switch to that site where you see a nice product and you go to an online store. At the end of the day, you forget about the Wiki article, but using Be Limitless, you will get to know how much time you spent on social sites, learning sites, etc, so that you can estimate yourself later on. According to your browser habits, it also calculates whether, in a day the distraction time is high, and suggests you to stay focused to reach your goals. You can add a particular site to a category, if you want in the Settings as well. To make you stay focused, it will display random quotes and delightful backgrounds along with weather information. Try Be Limitless for yourself from here.
4] Momentum
Momentum is a simple extension for daily inspiration. Wouldn’t it be great whenever you open a New Tab in your browser if you get to see natural HD background with a famous quote to get inspired? Momentum does exactly that. This extension lets you set a goal for the day to stay focused, displays weather information and famous quotes at the bottom to stay inspired. Apart from accessing your apps from Links present at the top left of your screen, you can also set some custom links for quick navigation. A clock and amazing backgrounds are the main strengths of this extension. You can get momentum for your Chrome from here.
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