It is useless in Chrome to put the Google site as your home page when you can start a search from the address bar. For this reason, in its continuous improvement, the initial tab function was added to Google Chrome last year. The Chrome home page, the one that opens when you press the + at the top to open a new tab, shows the most visited sites and installed applications . It is very useful to start browsing and open your favorite sites with a click on the thumbnail. With extensions, you can improve the Chrome home tab and customize it in several ways.
1) Start! is the name for extending a new home tab on Chrome that focuses on showing your favorite sites all on one page so you can open them quickly and easily. You can also set up a background taken by Flickr to personalize it. The list of applications is accessible from the link below while, as an additional and special function, there is also the possibility to see the latest news from an online site or newspaper by setting the RSS feed.
2) In another article we saw the extension to see photos of the Google Art Project works of art on the new Chrome tab
3) Similarly, you can see images from Google Earth on the new Chrome tab
4) Dream Afar New Tab, which shows images of different places every day, to take us to discover suggestive places.
5) Incredible Start Page divides the screen into 4 sections: one where the favorites, the most visited and the installed applications are listed, one where some favorite links can be fixed, one with the last closed sites and a notepad in which to take notes.
You can change the background color, choose the graphic fantasy and other design elements.
6) Random Wikipedia Tab shows a random Wikipedia article every time you open a new Chrome tab, so you can learn something new every day.
7) Speed Dial 2 is another option to customize the Google Chrome home tab with a grid of favorite sites. From the tab on the right you can browse applications, bookmarks and recently closed tabs. speed Dial 2 is the most similar to the default home tab of Chrome, you can change the background and also provides many browsing statistics in graphical form.
8) Bookolio is the one I am currently using, the most useful if you have many bookmarked sites.
From the buttons at the top you can see the lists of applications, preferred and recently closed. At the top there are the links to enter the most used sites in the world, the search box and the most visited sites.
9) Unsplash Instant is a simple Chrome extension that adds a different full-screen image every day.
10) Blank is the white tab, for those who don't want to see anything on the new Chrome tab.
11) In another article are also reported other extensions for a Start tab for Chrome with time, weather, favorite sites and Google Now including Fruumo, New Tab Page and OneFeed.
12) DayBoard is a reminder to see up to five activities on the new board that must be completed today.
Every day it is proposed to compile a list of things to do. Dayboard also gives you a chart of how many tasks have been completed.
13) Toby is a very useful application that replaces the initial Chrome tab with a site organizer, so you can order them according to the work to be done.
14) Wunderlist instead allows you to compile and always keep the list of things to do at hand.
15) Ritual or even Wandertab show a beautiful full-screen photo every day.
16) Currently it is an extension to display temperature and weather forecasts on the Chrome start tab
17) Tabby Cat is one of the funniest and cutest tabs for Chrome, with an interactive kitten like a puppy to get attached to.
18) Momentum is a different way to use Chrome's home tab, with a nice background image, a different quote every day, live information of the local weather, the weather and a list to fill in to mark things to do.
19) Home is the extension that brings to Chrome a screen similar to that of an Android smartphone, with applications, customizable icons to launch favorite sites, the clock, a quick memo and email notifications.
20) Lonely Planet is known for its tour guides and travel inspiration. And with the Lonely Planet Chrome extension, you can view a different destination every day. You will see a nice photo with the name of the place. If this motivates you to want to visit, click on the location and you will head to the Lonely Planet website to make your plans.
Finally, I remember that, in another article, there are 10 other extensions to customize Chrome and navigation
