Replace your new tab with the weather and a todolist displayed over a popular image from Reddit.

Latest Version

Version
2.0.4
Update
May 18, 2017
Size
662KiB
Developer
Category
Users
866
Rating
4.69231 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
Http://api.openweathermap.org/data/*
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Surge - Material New Tab Extension

Surge is a simplistic new tab page designed to integrate seamlessly into your daily workflow.

Set a custom background image or have Surge select one for you from a Reddit subreddit or multireddit of your choice. Check your personalized the time, date, and weather, and keep yourself on track with the built-in to-do list. Surge also features a custom search bar that can query different websites based on your input to help speed up your searches.

Features:
• Custom search bar that searches different websites based on input
• User-settable background image
• Automatically updating background image from subreddit or multireddit source
• Built-in and user-customizable themes
• To-do list
• Weather
• Draggable Time and Date
• Quick access to Chrome Apps
• Material Design inspired styling

** Please note that after updating to version 2.0, you may have to reset your background image! **

What's New
Version 2.0
• New Feature: Select City By ZIP Code (Set your weather location by entering the ZIP code of your city)
• New Feature: Show/Hide Temperature Decimal Places (Toggle between between a more accurate or more simplistic temperature view)
• Implemented cache layer to improve background update speed and reliability
• Improved performance, efficiency, and scalability
• Please note that you may have to reset your background image after this update

Version 1.4:
• New Feature: Set Background Image Update Interval (Choose how often your background image will automatically update from the settings page)
• Improved new user experience with additional save/home buttons on the settings page

Version 1.3:
• New Feature: Main Card Styling and Themes (Switch between the built-in themes or create a custom theme of your own in settings)
• Added card styling and wallpaper preview to the settings page

Version 1.2:
• New Feature: \"Ahoy!\" - A Better Search Bar (Search Google by default, or type a keyword before your query to search that site instead)
• Improved performance

Version 1.1:
• New Feature: Draggable clock (Click and drag the clock to move it around; reset its position in settings)
• Improved new user experience with increased emphasis on configurables
• Added more salient cues to improve user awareness of committed actions
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Surge - Material New Tab", "description": "Replace your new tab with the weather and a todolist displayed over a popular image from Reddit.", "version": "2.0.4", "permissions": [ "storage", "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/*" ], "background": { "scripts": ["background/eventPage.min.js"], "persistent": false }, "icons": { "16": "img/icon/icon16.png", "48": "img/icon/icon48.png", "128": "img/icon/icon128.png" }, "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self'; object-src 'self'", "chrome_url_overrides": { "newtab": "tab.html" }}
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User reviews

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Minh Hoàng (ID: 00000064ecc1e7cb) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/09/2022 Love this extension, but I would like the tab name "New tab" instead of "Surge"

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Zekie (ID: 000000314f00cb45) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 06/10/2021 Good configuration options but I would however like a method to change the new tab name from "Surge"

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Joan Flowers (ID: 0000007f0d5c6153) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/20/2020 I love the idea of the personalized wallpaper from reddit

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Wojtek Grabowski ''Grabaż'' (ID: 0000003b4c8cb633) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 05/06/2019 I need biggest window i this tab. I need large window

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Jonathan la Cour (ID: 00000037b1edeb4c) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 01/10/2018 Possibly the best of the new tab extensions. It could be improved some, however: - The title of the new tab should be "New Tab" instead of "Surge." - Ability to set a background color instead of an image. For now, I just use a data URI of a pixel. - Show the weather forecast as is available through the OpenWeatherMap API. - Ability to lock the position of the clock.