Launchpad — Custom New Tab

Custom new tab: freeform bookmarks, islands, 15 clock styles, wallpaper slideshows, background patterns, and liquid glass.

A desktop-style launcher in place of the Chrome new tab page. Stored in your browser. No account, no server, no tracking. SHORTCUTS AND ISLANDS • Drag shortcuts anywhere on the page • Group them into islands: move, resize by the corner, style each one • Open a whole island as a named Chrome tab group in one click • Icons fetched automatically, or upload your own • Right-click any page or link to save it LIQUID GLASS • Panels refract the wallpaper at the rim instead of blurring it • Seven sliders drive every panel on the page together • Liquid, Frosted, Solid or Flat, set per surface WALLPAPER • Colour, gradient, or an image by URL or upload • Uploads resized to your display, so they stay sharp • Brightness, contrast, saturation, dim, grain SLIDESHOW • Cycle any number of wallpapers • Interval from seconds to a day, or a new one on every new tab • 8 transitions: fade, dissolve, slide, push, wipe, zoom, blur, cut • Duration, easing and direction per transition, plus optional slow zoom PATTERNS • 16 shapes over a colour or gradient: hexagons, grid, dots, lines, crosshatch, triangles, diamonds, rings, scales, waves, zigzag, crosses, bricks, cubes, checker, stars • Size 4px to 800px, plus thickness, orientation, opacity, colour • Outline or solid, 8 blend modes, vertical fade CLOCK • 15 styles: Classic, Stacked, Word clock, Outline, Digital, Seven segment, Dot matrix, Flip cards, Terminal, Neon, Day bar, Meters, Binary, Orbit, Analog • 12 analog dials, from Minimal and Railway to Braun, Bauhaus and Sun & moon • 15 typefaces, size, weight, colour, 12 or 24 hour, seconds, date line • Fixed-width digits, so it holds still as the seconds tick. Drag it anywhere WEATHER • Four layouts, from a bare temperature to a full card • Optional five-day strip, city search, Celsius or Fahrenheit • Refreshes at most every 15 minutes. Only your coordinates are sent LAYOUT • Shortcuts keep to one grid • Islands, clock and weather are magnetic, with live alignment guides • Hold Alt to place freely, or switch snapping off • Resizing the window scales the arrangement instead of rearranging it, so your layout comes back exactly as you left it • Export and import everything as JSON PRIVACY • Stored locally. No accounts, no servers, no analytics • Tab access requested only when you open an island as a tab group What's new in 1.4.3 Fixed: islands lost their positions when the window was resized. Making the window smaller used to clamp every island into the new size and save the result, so maximising again left them piled up and overlapping. Positions are now authored once and kept. The whole arrangement scales to fit instead of being rearranged. Shrink the window and everything keeps its relative position; go back and it is exactly as you left it. Nothing overlaps at any size. The clock and weather panel scale with it, so the page stays in proportion. Fixed: group headings in the settings dropdowns were unreadable, light text on a white strip. They now follow the panel theme. What's new in 1.4.2 Wallpaper slideshow: any number of wallpapers, your own interval, 8 transitions with duration, easing and direction, optional slow zoom, and a "new tab, new wallpaper" mode. 8 more clock styles and 6 more analog dials. The picker is grouped by kind. Background patterns over colour and gradient backgrounds. Fixed: the no-flash load never ran once installed, since Manifest V3 blocks inline script. Moved to boot.js.