Chrome extension that shows the current time and weather on the new tab screen

Latest Version

Version
1.1.1
Update
December 22, 2019
Size
111KiB
Developer
Category
Users
30,000+
Rating
4.21053 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
Nederlands
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Permissions
Storage
Geolocation
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Simple Extension

Replace new tab screen with current time and weather sourced from OpenWeatherMap.org.

Simple replaces your \"New Tab\" screen with a new one that shows you the current time and the weather, with no tracking, no unnecessary permissions, no BS.

# Update 1.1.0
Added font picker
Minor bug fixes and performance improvements
Add blinky \"new stuff\" notification

# Update 1.0.12
CSS updates to make the scaling a bit nicer
Add 1hr caching to weather querying so we don't get booted from the weather API :)

# Update 1.0.11
Previous fix for issue causing defaults to override user settings didn't work in some situations, retrying
Allowed clicking off the settings bar to close it so you don't have to hit the X
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Simple", "version": "1.1.1", "options_page": "app/index.html#settings", "icons": { "16": "images/icon16.png", "96": "images/icon96.png", "128": "images/icon128.png" }, "description": "Chrome extension that shows the current time and weather on the new tab screen", "chrome_url_overrides": { "newtab": "app/index.html" }, "default_locale": "en", "author": "Dan Covill", "permissions": [ "storage", "geolocation" ], "manifest_version": 2}
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