A minimal, highly customizable new tab page for Chrome. Live clock, weather, multi-engine search with suggestions, quick links, and an interactive pixel grid — all in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS with no dependencies.

• Live clock updating every second (HH:MM:SS)
• Time-aware greeting: Good morning / afternoon / evening / night
• Personalized with your name (optional)
• Full date display (day, month, date)

• Powered by OpenWeatherMap (free tier works)
• Shows temperature, feels-like, humidity, weather description, and icon
• Auto-detect location via geolocation, or specify any city by name
• Metric (°C) or Imperial (°F) units
• Toggle location label visibility

• Engines: Google, DuckDuckGo, Kagi, Brave, Bing
• Live autocomplete suggestions (debounced 200ms)
• Click the engine badge to switch engines inline — persists across tabs
• Keyboard navigation through suggestions (↑ / ↓ / Enter / Escape)
• Press / anywhere on the page to jump to the search bar

• Up to 9 links with custom labels and URLs
• Favicons auto-fetched via DuckDuckGo
• Press 1–9 to navigate directly from keyboard
• Reorder or delete links in settings

• Interactive grid next to the clock running Conway's Game of Life
• Hover to paint cells with a shifting rainbow hue trail
• Click to trigger an expanding colorful ripple + seed a burst of live cells into the simulation
• Respects prefers-reduced-motion
• Pauses when the tab is not visible

• Light / Dark / System theme with one-click cycling
• 9 accent color presets + custom hex input
• Custom font: any locally installed font by name
• Background image: URL or local file upload, with brightness and blur controls
• Pixel grid show/hide toggle

Clone or download this repository, then use make to build and install.

make install-chrome

This builds lifetab-1.0.0-chrome.zip and opens chrome://extensions. Then:

1. Enable Developer mode (top right toggle)
2. Click Load unpacked and select this folder
   (or drag-drop the zip onto the page)
3. Open a new tab

Run temporarily (dev mode):

make run-firefox   # requires: npm install -g web-ext

Build .zip for permanent install:

make pack-firefox

Then in Firefox: about:addons → gear icon → Install Add-on From File → select the built zip.

Firefox temp-load (without signing): about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on → select any file in this folder.

Click the settings icon (bottom-left) or open the panel via the gear button.

Settings sync across devices via chrome.storage.sync. Background images are stored locally via chrome.storage.local.

1. Sign up at openweathermap.org (free)
2. Copy your API key
3. Open Settings → Weather → paste the key
4. Set location to a city name (e.g. London) or auto for geolocation

• Manifest V3
• Vanilla HTML / CSS / JavaScript — zero dependencies, zero build step
• chrome.storage.sync for config, chrome.storage.local for images
• Fonts: Inter + JetBrains Mono via Google Fonts

MIT