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A custom new tab for Chrome

Hoome replaces the Chrome new tab page with your shortcuts, folders, widgets and the background you choose. It installs from the Chrome Web Store, from Chrome 111 on, and every one of its features is available there.

Open Chrome Web Store

Hoome in a browser window: the clock, the search bar, the shortcuts and the folders.
Install store
Chrome Web Store
Minimum version
Chrome 111
Account
None for the free version
Store listing
Public

Install Hoome on Chrome, step by step

  1. Open the Hoome listing on the Chrome Web Store with the button above, then click “Add to Chrome”.

  2. Chrome shows what the extension will be able to do. Read the list, then confirm with “Add extension”.

  3. Open a new tab (Ctrl+T, or Cmd+T on a Mac). Chrome may ask “Did you mean to change this page?”: choose “Keep it”. “Restore settings” turns the extension off without erasing anything, and you turn it back on in chrome://extensions.

  4. Since Chrome 138, a gray bar appears at the bottom of the page with the extension’s name. Chrome adds it, not Hoome: a right click on the bar offers to hide it, and the “Footer” section of the “Customize Chrome” panel turns it off for good.

What Hoome brings to Chrome

  • A folder zoomed open above the page: the full grid of its shortcuts, with the folder name and the rest of the page dimmed behind.

    Folders, the way a phone does them

    A preview tile shows 4 or 9 icons. One click and it zooms open on the full grid. Work tools on one side, reading on the other, and the page stays short.

  • Instant search: a few letters typed in the bar, and the list of matching shortcuts appears under it, ahead of the search engine suggestions.

    Type three letters, the site is there

    The bar filters your shortcuts as you type, and switches to your browser’s search engine when what you want is not filed with you. Enter opens the first result, Shift and Enter force a web search.

  • Close up on the three widgets: the five day forecast for the chosen town, a task list and a quick note.

    The weather, your tasks, your notes

    Three free widgets, off by default, that you switch on one at a time. The five day forecast asks for no account and no key, only the name of your town. Tasks and notes stay in your browser, unless you choose to sync them.

What works on Chrome, and what does not

  • Every feature

    Yes

    Shortcuts, folders, Essentials, layouts, widgets and animated backgrounds: nothing is removed on Chrome. What Premium adds there is exactly what it adds elsewhere.

  • Most visited sites

    Yes

    In the add-shortcut window, Hoome can suggest the sites you open the most. Chrome supplies that list after a permission you grant with one click, the first time only; without it, Hoome never reads the list.

  • Processor and memory

    Yes

    The two Premium widgets that show how hard the computer is working read Chrome’s system information. Nothing is recorded, nothing is sent.

  • History, downloads, bookmarks

    Yes

    The quick access buttons open these Chrome pages from the new tab. The setting can be turned off if you do not want them.

  • Sync through the Google account

    Good to know

    It is free, goes through your Chrome profile signed in to Google, and follows your desktops from one Chrome computer to another. It does not link Chrome to Firefox: that takes the Hoome account, where saving a copy is reserved for Premium.

Chrome themes

Chrome accepts only still images as a theme, never motion: a Hoome theme for Chrome will be a snapshot of your background laid over the tabs. None is published on the Chrome Web Store yet, and this site only announces what is published. The backgrounds themselves, animated ones included, already show on the Hoome new tab page. The themes gallery tells you, background by background, where each store stands.

See the themes gallery See what Hoome does

Guides on the blog

Frequently asked questions

Chrome asks if I want to change this page: what should I choose?

Choose “Keep it”. It is the confirmation Chrome asks for whenever an extension takes over the new tab page. “Restore settings” turns Hoome off without uninstalling it or erasing your data: reopen chrome://extensions and switch it back on to carry on.

How do I remove the gray bar at the bottom of the new tab?

Right click the bar to hide it, or open “Customize Chrome” and then the “Footer” section. Chrome has added it since version 138 under every extension new tab page, and no extension can remove it.

Do my shortcuts follow me to another computer on Chrome?

Yes, for free, if Chrome there is signed in to the same Google account with sync turned on. No extension can tell whether your profile is synced, so Hoome’s settings remind you. Without a synced profile, your data stays on the computer.

Can I install Hoome on Chrome for Android or iPhone?

No. Chrome accepts no extension on Android or iPhone, and Hoome is a desktop extension. On mobile, what matters is which browsers open an extension catalog, and Chrome is not one of them.

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