Modern New Tab Page
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Can long scold latest Microsoft products, but the tiled interface was really fresh and interesting solution. Another conversation that besides Windows 8 innovations contains too few benefits to attract new fans. But now it's not about that, right now, we'll talk about how to implement the interface MetroUI in the Google Chrome browser. And help us in this expansion Modern New Tab Page.
After installing the extension a new tab of your browser will find a kind of very reminiscent of the start screen of Windows 8. Only here in the form of tiles displayed tabs on your favorite sites. Each tab has two display modes and can be located at any convenient place simply dragging and dropping. Page Modern New Tab Page has the ability to change colors and set your own image as a background. You can change the number of elements, their size, number of rows and columns in the grid. At the bottom of the page there are links to a list of the last closed tabs and bookmarks.
But that's not all. As in MetroUI, the tiles are "live", that is able to display some dynamically updated information. This is done through the RSS technology. In the settings page elements, you can specify the news channel of the corresponding site and tiles will be demonstrating its latest updates. And at the same time in the settings you can specify the site icon, change the color of the tiles and the text, and so on.
After some tweaking and adjustment by itself Modern New Tab Page shows us a nice and informative home page, it can compete with Opera Speed Dial or newfangled design of Windows 8. Lovers exactly like tile interface.