Customize Chrome’s New Tab Page in 30 Seconds
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If you’ve seen a typical college student’s laptop, you might be familiar with Momentum. This free Chrome extension “replace[s] new tab page with a personal dashboard featuring to-do, weather, and inspiration”.
However, after five years of looking at the same couple of pictures, motivational quotes, and the cheesy “what is your main focus for today?”, I was long overdue for a change.
Thankfully, we can make our own personalized override of the Chrome homepage/new tab page. It’s fast, easy, and you can customize it however you want!
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes you have some knowledge of Javascript and HTML/CSS. All good? Great, let’s get started 👍🏼
Implementation
0. Getting Started
Much like how every npm project requires a package.json, every Chrome extension needs a manifest.json for important information. This file goes in the root directory. This is all we need initially:
