aalu1418 / chromeextension-newtab

A simple Google Chrome extension for a new tab page with weather powered by NOAA

Chrome Extension: New Page + Time + Weather + TTC updates

A small personal project to create a Google Chrome extension for a new tab page with weather

Powered by:

Weather: NOAA
Location: IPAPI
Icons: @erikflowers/weather-icons

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Application Views:

Check out the hosted link!

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Functionality:

Originally inspired by Currently Chrome Extension

But simpler, more stripped down and customizable.

• Weather (with hourly forecast)

Future improvements:

• Weather alerts
• manually configured location

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Download Extension

Download the .crx file from the latest github release

Note: Use the following instructions below to build the .crx file locally.

Building Extension

Note: The original purpose of this project was to customize a home screen - not for large scale deployment/distribution. Please use the various APIs according to policies specified. The purpose of this document is to simply relay how to deploy this extension on a personal platform.

Instructions:

1. git clone https://github.com/aalu1418/chromeExtension-newTab
2. In Google Chrome, go to chrome://extensions and enable Developer mode
3. Select Pack extension and browse to the Extension root directory
4. Select Pack extension and two files will be generated chromeExtension-newTab.crx and chromeExtension-newTab.pem

Installing Extension

(note: make sure Developer mode is enabled)

1. From your file browser, click and drag chromeExtension-newTab.crx onto the chrome://extensions page and install the extension

chromeextension-newtab's Issues

small screen / mobile screen adaptation

Doesn't refresh until tab has been open for a while

multiple alerts for the same line displays repeated links

update weather icon package (use actual repo - not npm package)

remove cors-anywhere usage

current weather alerts are not displaying

remove offline data, show an offline notice instead

remove color picker, default to black

replace darksky api with openweathermap api

background color turns back to black after refresh

color is maintained in options menu, but main background switches back to black after a refresh

fix moon phase icons (waning crescent issue)

convert to use gh-pages