Custom New Tab Page for Chrome — Workspace Dashboard (2026)

Every new tab you open in Chrome starts mostly empty: a Google logo, a search bar, and a few shortcut tiles. SuperchargeNavigation can replace it with a dashboard that shows your workspaces, pinned tabs, most-visited sites, a live clock, and a unified search bar. It ships off: until you turn it on in Options, the SuperchargeNavigation new tab page just forwards you on (to Google by default, or an address you set). Once it’s on, one new tab tells you where you were and gets you back there.

What’s on the Dashboard

The page loads from a bundled HTML file: no framework overhead, no external fonts, and the only external requests are favicon fetches for your workspace, pinned, and top-site icons. Once the dashboard is on, seven sections appear by default, each toggleable from settings:

Bookmarks bar. A thin strip across the top of the page showing the bookmarks in your browser’s bookmarks bar, the way the browser’s own new tab page does. Folders open as menus, and any bookmarks that do not fit overflow into a » menu. The bar updates live as your bookmarks change. It is on by default when the new tab page is on.

Clock and date. A large 72px clock centered on the page. Lightweight, always accurate, no widget overhead.

Unified search bar. Type anything: the bar searches your open tabs, your named workspaces, and your Chrome bookmarks simultaneously. Results appear with favicons and a source badge (tab, workspace, or bookmark). Press Enter on a result to jump there, or press Enter with no match to run the query through your default search engine.

Workspace switcher. Every named workspace appears as a card. Each card shows the workspace name, favicon previews of up to five open tabs, the total tab count, and an active-state highlight (blue border) on your current workspace. Click any card to switch. The active workspace is always visible at a glance.

Pinned tabs. Your pinned tabs appear as a row of favicon icons below the workspace switcher. Click any favicon to jump to that tab.

Top sites. Your most-visited sites appear as a row of circular favicon icons, sourced from chrome.history.search(). Hover a site to reveal an ✕ button that removes it from the row permanently.

Background animation. A field of halftone dots behind the page, lit by two slow drifting lights. Purely visual, runs without blocking the main thread. Turn it off in settings for a completely static background.

Settings Reference

All settings live in Options → New tab page. The gear icon in the top-right of the new tab opens a quick-settings panel with one switch per section; its “All settings” link opens the full options page.

How It Compares

Enabling or Disabling the Custom New Tab Page

If you were already using the dashboard, your setting was left as it was. Flip it from Options: open the extension options page → New tab page section → flip the master toggle on or off.

The toggle writes nav.ntpEnabled to local storage. The SuperchargeNavigation page keeps loading. It forwards you on immediately, to Google by default or to an address you set. To hand the new tab to a different extension, install that extension after SuperchargeNavigation. Re-enable any time from Options with no reinstall needed.

Privacy

The new tab page reads your open tabs, pinned tabs, named workspaces, and Chrome’s top-sites list locally. No analytics; external requests are favicon fetches for your workspace, pinned, and top-site icons on load. The search bar sends a query to your default search engine only when you explicitly press Enter with no local match.