What?
A minimalistic new tab page replacement for Chrome. This empty new tab page fades from black to dark grey; easy on your eyes.
Why?
1. Default Chrome new tab page makes network requests and show thumbnail images of previously visited sites
2. Dark New Tab requires minimal system resources; everything is contained in a single HTML file; not a line of JavaScript is loaded and is lightning fast
3. Dark New Tab doesn’t blind you with a white page; the background fades from black to a gentle grey
4. I wanted to minimize distractions
5. I want to use Dark New Tab across all my devices 🙂
Pairing Suggestion:
Dark New Tab goes well with most dark themes, including “Just Black” dark theme from The Chrome team (Google).
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/just-black/aghfnjkcakhmadgdomlmlhhaocbkloab
Source Code:
https://github.com/dandydanny/darknewtab
Wish it kept the bookmarks bar though.
Very handy, I would much rather be presented with a dark new tab when browsing with dark mode off, than have my retinae incinerated by a nuclear blast of white light wh
I like this because it doesn’t collect extra data.
That’s excellent!
Simple, quick, and to the point. Perfect for dark themes / night time. Thanks for a great extension!
wonderful
Works.
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I spent an unhappy hour looking for a BLACK new tab. I get migraine from high contrast and bright screens. Finally I found it. No white, no text, no time display, just beautiful black. Perfection. Thank you!
Just what it says it is. Nice.
这就是我要找的
Exactly what I was looking for! No more getting blasted by a white flash when opening new tabs while using Dark Reader. Thank you! Dark Reader and Dark New Tab should cross promote each other 😉
Fantastic!
As described. Would be nice of you could skip the animation in options though.
But, the default “New tab” in Chrome uses 90MB of memory and is phoning home and this one only uses 16MB.
Does exactly what it says. No blinding flash, just a nice dark tab.
Best solution I’ve found. 👍 (though the lengthy animation detracts from the described “minimalistic” experience)
Works great as expected. One suggestion is to just make no animation. Plain grey one 😉
Thank You!
Now I don’t have to be blinded at night. Thank you.
Works insanely fast. I’m using it on Edge (Dev version) and loads way faster than the default Edge new tab.
Edge by default shows you for a split second a full bright new tab before fully loading. With this extension the new tab opens directly dark.
Does exactly what it promises. I was using the Empty New Tab Page extension—but after switching to Windows 10’s dark theme, plain white tab pages were too glaring, and the extension had no color options. So this is great—thanks!
BTW, it does NOT show the bold white text shown here on its main page. (A confusing choice, but developers aren’t necessarily marketers, right?)
Thank you, I really needed this. But, I would prefer a version without the unnecessary color transition animation.
Best so far
I love it. Install on everything!
I have dark themes for every site, and every time I opened something in a new tab at night it felt like a flashbang going off. This solves that problem perfectly!
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