Overview
A new tab page with 21 themes, a living aurora, bookmark folders you arrange yourself, and a search box that does arithmetic.
Nordlys replaces the new tab page. It opens instantly and keeps everything on your machine. Bookmarks live in folders you arrange yourself. Drag a tile into another folder, drag folders around, pull a corner to change how many columns a folder has, fold the ones you rarely open into a dock at the bottom. Right click anything to edit it in place. Icons come from a built-in vector set that recognises most sites by domain, or from a favicon, an image URL, a local file, or a monogram. A black logo on a black theme used to disappear. Nordlys now measures every icon against the plate behind it and re-tones only the ones that would vanish, so coloured logos keep their colour. You can override that decision on any bookmark. 21 themes, 11 dark and 10 light. Each one sets the background, the glass tint and the colours of the canvas behind it, so Gruvbox gets an amber sky and OLED Obsidian stays properly black. Follow the system, or pin it to dark or light. If none of the 21 fit, build your own in the theme studio or write CSS directly. Type is split into three slots: the clock and headings, the interface, and monospace. Choose from the bundled faces or from the fonts already installed on your computer. Four canvas scenes: Aurora, Cosmos, Mesh and Particles. Motion and Atmosphere sliders apply to all of them, so the background can be a slow shimmer or almost nothing. Your own image or a looping video works too, stored locally. Search covers ten engines with bang shortcuts, mixes in your own bookmarks and recent searches, and does arithmetic: type 45 * 12 + sqrt(144) and the answer sits above the suggestions. No account, no analytics, no telemetry, no remote code. Settings and bookmarks live in local storage, and the only requests are search suggestions from the engine you chose and the favicons you ask for. Export the lot to JSON whenever you want. Available in English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Chinese and Turkish. Open source under the MIT licence: https://github.com/sa1ntsinner/nordlys-tab
Details
- Version2.2.2
- UpdatedSeptember 4, 2026
- Offered bysmile0murr
- Size254KiB
- LanguagesEnglish (United States)
- Developer
Email
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