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raptrex
Good find, I love how simple and minimalist it is
ThinkWriteMute
It's awesome...except the new page tab is great too. There should be a way to combine them. Perhaps two columns?
jazzychad
Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand the "New Page" tab. After a while, or if I have a bunch of tabs already open, the New Page tab can take up to a minute to load. I would rather just have a blank tab so I can start typing the URL immediately. Hmm, maybe I should stop whining and write my own extension...
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83457
"the New Page tab can take up to a minute to load"

you are doing it wrong

ThinkWriteMute
Something is going wrong if your new page tab loads slowly. Perhaps watch your chrome task manager when you do it?
weaksauce
You can always try to clear out the cache. This was causing me lots of trouble with firefox and opening up a new window. I seem to remember there is a faq entry on the chrome site that prescribes this solution for your exact problem.
cmelbye
There's an extension available that opens a blank page in new tabs. I agree with you, Chrome's default new tab page is almost as bad as Safari's 3D top sites thing that opens in new tabs.
winter_blue
You could as well set your home page to a to-do list page (cookie-stored pwd protected.) I think under the hood, that is approximately what this add-on does.
s3graham
The new tab page is not the home page.

In Chrome you have to explicitly turn on the "Home page" button, and it has a separate URL.

So, you basically never see your home page in Chrome, just the new tab page, which you can only customize via extension.

r11t
Apart from the minimalism I feel that the extension doubles up to hinder procrastination since the list is visible every time you fire up the browser or open a new tab.
paraschopra
7.5 mb download for this app. Looks rather heavy to me for a simple app.
dannyr
I know. I wanted to use it but it's just huge. Does the file size have an impact on Chrome's speed even if you are not using the extension?
pavs
> Does the file size have an impact on Chrome's speed even if you are not using the extension?

No. Unlike Firefox, all extensions and tabs has their own processes. Go to about:memory on chrome too see the processes running

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decklin
I was curious, so I downloaded it and ran unzip -l.

It contains the contents of the .git directory and another copy of the .crx file, inside itself (who knows how many levels this goes down). Actual code (almost entirely jQuery and .psd "source" for the icons) looks to be ~100kb.

Authors, don't do this. git-archive is your friend.

antimora
That's so simple - I like it
muon
Using this for some time now http://www.stickyscreen.org/ clean and simple.
raptrex
does this use html 5 offline storage or cookies and its stored online?
muon
Sorry, I do not know how that works, I am not familiar with web programming.
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Paton
Maybe I'll actually get things done now. Installed
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Paton
I take that back... tasks are erased when you clear cookies/temp files since it uses the HTML 5 web storage.

Could they not have made a permanent file elsewhere to store the data?

Concours
It's really awesome, a bit heavy but, haven't noticed any troubles with Chrome so far.
oscardelben
You can use this in all browsers, Download the project and set the newtab.html as your homepage. In safari you can also set it to open for new tabs.
lovskogen
Alternative: Set your "New page" as http://teuxdeux.com/
r11t
Teuxdeux looks neat too. However one drawback would be that it wouldn't work without internet access, but the extension would since it stores data locally.