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Transform your new tab into a personalized productivity dashboard with widgets for ChatGPT, notes, calendar, bookmarks, and more.
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Make your new tab actually useful.
New Tab Widgets lets you turn your blank new tab into a personalized dashboard filled with powerful, interactive widgets. Stay productive, in control, and inspired — every time you open a tab.
Just a few of the awesome widgets you’ll find:
Productivity & Organization
📝 Sticky Notes – Jot down quick thoughts, to-dos, or reminders.
🔗 Link & Link Group Widgets – Create shortcuts to your favorite websites. PRO users can add custom icons.
📅 Google Calendar – See your upcoming events at a glance.
🔎 Search Bar – Add custom search engines and view search history.
📚 Bookmark Viewer – Quickly find and use your saved bookmarks.
📋 Copy to Clipboard – One-click buttons to copy custom text.
🕰️ World Clock – Track multiple time zones in analog or digital style.
Smart Home Integration
💡 Hue Scene Widget – Instantly switch between Philips Hue scenes.
💡 Hue Group Widget – Control power, colors, and brightness of Hue groups. PRO users can access scenes via right-click.
🎉 Hue Bookmark Scene – Change lighting and open a website in one click — perfect for “Netflix and chill.”
Entertainment & Media
🎮 Steam Widget – Launch games directly from your tab.
🎵 Spotify Widget – Play, pause, and search from a sleek mini-player.
🤖 ChatGPT Widget – Ask questions or chat without leaving your browser.
🖼️ Art Widget – Rotate through curated artworks for daily inspiration.
Web & Utility Widgets
🖼️ iframe Widget – Embed any website or specific element right on your dashboard.
🌐 Top Websites – See your most-visited sites (optional permissions).
🕵️ Recently Visited – Access your browsing history easily.
🛒 OzBargain – See the latest Australian deals.
⛽ FuelWatch (WA) – Check today’s and tomorrow’s fuel prices.
Customization & Power Features
🎨 Custom CSS (PRO) – Full control over styling — fonts, colors, layout, everything.
📖 Multiple Pages – Create dashboards for work, personal, hobbies, etc. (PRO: unlimited pages)
☁️ Cloud Sync – Automatically sync your setup across devices (PRO).
🖼️ Backgrounds – Choose from millions of HD wallpapers or upload your own.
🖼️ Welcome Screen – A clean overlay with time and date that blends beautifully with your background.
🔐 Free vs PRO
All widgets are free to use with core features. Some advanced options are available to PRO users.
PRO unlocks:
Unlimited widgets
Unlimited pages
Custom CSS
Cloud sync
Extra widget options (custom icons, right-click Hue scenes)
Priority support
Upgrade anytime right from your dashboard.
Latest reviews
- (2025-04-16) Dennis Johansson: Great addon for the way I use chrome with a lot of neat features, and most importantly excellent support (initially emailed the developer and later on received a lot of assistance through their discord)
- (2025-04-13) Rory Hill: Amazing! I love this and it is my favorite new tab extension! Very customizable! Spotify widget is broken i think, so 4.5/5
- (2025-01-13) Eddyson: Wish there was a way to have custom html widgets and customize the widgets sizes and just a normal google search bar
- (2024-02-08) Jan Seidler: This t ruly looks awesome. Unfortunately, for me the Hue bridge discovery is not working (yes, the bridge is on the same network, and no there's no VPN involved - it also works with other apps on the same machine), so not sure about this part. But even without it this is very useful. A pity the discovery doesn't work for me.
- (2023-09-19) Jon Sorensen: This is really cool but for some reason it wont let me 'create scenes'. Also can't position widgets to where I would like (in edit mode) - the widget just snaps to a random place when trying to move it. EDIT: Ignore the last part. To add scenes you have to have saved some in the hue app for the option to appear on this extension.
- (2023-09-19) Jon Sorensen: This is really cool but for some reason it wont let me 'create scenes'. Also can't position widgets to where I would like (in edit mode) - the widget just snaps to a random place when trying to move it. EDIT: Ignore the last part. To add scenes you have to have saved some in the hue app for the option to appear on this extension.
- (2022-06-07) Mark Dorkhom: Works flawlessly to control my hue lights straight from my computer. Excited to see what other features get added.
- (2022-06-07) Mark Dorkhom: Works flawlessly to control my hue lights straight from my computer. Excited to see what other features get added.