Start - A Better New Tab for Chrome provides you with a customizable tab page containing user-defined points of interest.

You can add specific things to the tab like news, calendar, todo list, weather forecast, and more. You also have the option to set your search engine as well as changing the wallpaper. The wallpaper feature only permits the selection of specifically provided images. A nice addition would be to allow you to choose your own.

Start - A Better New Tab for Chrome is a nice straightforward option for giving you access to some everyday items within a new tab.

Start - A Better New Tab for Chrome Features:

Beautiful custom full screen backgrounds/wallpapers/background images
Live customizable weather forecast/minimalistic weather
Easily re-arrange and disable widgets in each new tab
Optional beautiful daily changing wallpapers from unsplash.com
Google calendar events
To Do List with drag and drop reordering
Clock
Live facebook notifications/messages so you don't waste time
Follow your favorite stocks with live customizable stock tickers
Choose from preset RSS news feeds, or add your own
Easy access to manage apps, extensions, bookmarks, and history
Integrated search bar in each new tab
Live Uber Wait Times
Top Tracks Daily from Spotify
Top visited websites
Use the rearrangement option on the bottom of each new tab to drag and drop the widgets
Notepad feature automatically syncs with your signed in Google account
Live updated YouTube most popular feed
Multiple layout options, single view and all in one

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