Turn your new tab screen in Chrome into an art exhibit

tabstract.io

6 pointswolfman16 comments

I installed it. I'm enjoying it.

Curious about how it fetches images. On my machine it loads a blurry jpeg which sharpens over about two seconds. I'd be happy to have a couple hundred batch-loaded at a time so I can immediately see high-res art.

Great suggestion. I'm working on preloading a set of images so that things are much more snappy each time you open a new tab. Currently, it fetches the low res and overrides it with the high res when it is finished loading.

This is fixed now. You should see a speed improvement when you upgrade.

I do notice this. Thank you!

This is cool, but I do use my 'frequently visited sites' a lot. I'd definitely use this if it were in the background (or had some option to toggle visible the frequent sites/search box)

Chrome doesn't give devs access to 'frequently visited sites', unfortunately.

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