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A simple Chrome extension that replaces your New Tab page with a to-do list
- raptrex 17y agoGood find, I love how simple and minimalist it is
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoIt's awesome...except the new page tab is great too. There should be a way to combine them. Perhaps two columns?
- jazzychad 17y agoMaybe it's just me, but I can't stand the "New Page" tab. After a while, or if I have a bunch of tabs already open, the New Page tab can take up to a minute to load. I would rather just have a blank tab so I can start typing the URL immediately. Hmm, maybe I should stop whining and write my own extension...
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- 83457 17y ago"the New Page tab can take up to a minute to load" you are doing it wrong
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoSomething is going wrong if your new page tab loads slowly. Perhaps watch your chrome task manager when you do it?
- weaksauce 17y agoYou can always try to clear out the cache. This was causing me lots of trouble with firefox and opening up a new window. I seem to remember there is a faq entry on the chrome site that prescribes this solution for your exact problem.
- cmelbye 17y agoThere's an extension available that opens a blank page in new tabs. I agree with you, Chrome's default new tab page is almost as bad as Safari's 3D top sites thing that opens in new tabs.
- winter_blue 17y agoYou could as well set your home page to a to-do list page (cookie-stored pwd protected.) I think under the hood, that is approximately what this add-on does.
- s3graham 17y agoThe new tab page is not the home page. In Chrome you have to explicitly turn on the "Home page" button, and it has a separate URL. So, you basically never see your home page in Chrome, just the new tab page, which you can only customize via extension.
- r11t 17y agoApart from the minimalism I feel that the extension doubles up to hinder procrastination since the list is visible every time you fire up the browser or open a new tab.
- s3graham 17y agoI use https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1 https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1 instead so that it's network hosted. edit: extension to redirect new tab page, if you want: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bokbgdhblfolpfanocjafjhpjkebhlfk https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bokbgdhblfolpfan...
- peregrine 17y agoTry this out too... https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas
- paraschopra 17y ago7.5 mb download for this app. Looks rather heavy to me for a simple app.
- dannyr 17y agoI know. I wanted to use it but it's just huge. Does the file size have an impact on Chrome's speed even if you are not using the extension?
- pavs 17y ago> Does the file size have an impact on Chrome's speed even if you are not using the extension? No. Unlike Firefox, all extensions and tabs has their own processes. Go to about:memory on chrome too see the processes running
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- decklin 17y agoI was curious, so I downloaded it and ran unzip -l. It contains the contents of the .git directory and another copy of the .crx file, inside itself (who knows how many levels this goes down). Actual code (almost entirely jQuery and .psd "source" for the icons) looks to be ~100kb. Authors, don't do this. git-archive is your friend.
- antimora 17y agoThat's so simple - I like it
- spazmaster 17y agoso you guys are all windows users? Can't install extensions on my Mac Chrome. :(
- alexmat 17y agoLinux chromium builds work well too ;)
- dingydoon 17y agoright
- raptrex 17y agouse chromium and follow this:http://grack.com/blog/2009/12/08/re-enable-install-button-for-mac-chrome-extensions/ http://grack.com/blog/2009/12/08/re-enable-install-button-fo...
- genieyclo 17y agoWorks fine in Linux
- whimsy 17y agohttp://www.newtabking.com/ http://www.newtabking.com/ seems to do this for FireFox. Are there any other similar extensions for Firefox?
- muon 17y agoUsing this for some time now http://www.stickyscreen.org/ http://www.stickyscreen.org/ clean and simple.
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- Paton 17y agoMaybe I'll actually get things done now. Installed
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- Paton 17y agoI take that back... tasks are erased when you clear cookies/temp files since it uses the HTML 5 web storage. Could they not have made a permanent file elsewhere to store the data?
- Concours 17y agoIt's really awesome, a bit heavy but, haven't noticed any troubles with Chrome so far.
- oscardelben 17y agoYou can use this in all browsers, Download the project and set the newtab.html as your homepage. In safari you can also set it to open for new tabs.
- lovskogen 17y agoAlternative: Set your "New page" as http://teuxdeux.com/ http://teuxdeux.com/
- r11t 17y agoTeuxdeux looks neat too. However one drawback would be that it wouldn't work without internet access, but the extension would since it stores data locally.