Surge - Material New Tab Surge - Material New Tab

Productivity
Version: 2.0.4
Last Update: 2017-05-18

Overview

Surge - Material New Tab is a Chrome extension developed by iFallUpHill Studios. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Surge - Material New Tab is 2.0.4, updated on 2017-05-18.
917 users have installed this extension. 41 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Replace your new tab with the weather and a todolist displayed over a popular image from Reddit.

Surge is a simplistic new tab page designed to integrate seamlessly into your daily workflow.

Set a custom background image or have Surge select one for you from a Reddit subreddit or multireddit of your choice. Check your personalized the time, date, and weather, and keep yourself on track with the built-in to-do list. Surge also features a custom search bar that can query different websites based on your input to help speed up your searches.

Features:
• Custom search bar that searches different websites based on input
• User-settable background image
• Automatically updating background image from subreddit or multireddit source
• Built-in and user-customizable themes
• To-do list
• Weather
• Draggable Time and Date
• Quick access to Chrome Apps
• Material Design inspired styling

** Please note that after updating to version 2.0, you may have to reset your background image! **

What's New
Version 2.0
• New Feature: Select City By ZIP Code (Set your weather location by entering the ZIP code of your city)
• New Feature: Show/Hide Temperature Decimal Places (Toggle between between a more accurate or more simplistic temperature view)
• Implemented cache layer to improve background update speed and reliability
• Improved performance, efficiency, and scalability
• Please note that you may have to reset your background image after this update

Version 1.4:
• New Feature: Set Background Image Update Interval (Choose how often your background image will automatically update from the settings page)
• Improved new user experience with additional save/home buttons on the settings page

Version 1.3:
• New Feature: Main Card Styling and Themes (Switch between the built-in themes or create a custom theme of your own in settings)
• Added card styling and wallpaper preview to the settings page

Version 1.2:
• New Feature: "Ahoy!" - A Better Search Bar (Search Google by default, or type a keyword before your query to search that site instead)
• Improved performance

Version 1.1:
• New Feature: Draggable clock (Click and drag the clock to move it around; reset its position in settings)
• Improved new user experience with increased emphasis on configurables
• Added more salient cues to improve user awareness of committed actions

Rating

41 ratings

Total Installs

917

Information

Last Update

2017-05-18

Current Version

2.0.4

Size

662KiB

Author

iFallUpHill Studios

Website

None

Category

Productivity

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avatar Minh Hoàng
2022-02-09

Love this extension, but I would like the tab name "New tab" instead of "Surge"

avatar Zekie
2021-06-10

Good configuration options but I would however like a method to change the new tab name from "Surge"

avatar Joan Flowers
2020-02-20

I love the idea of the personalized wallpaper from reddit

avatar Wojtek Grabowski ''Grabaż''
2019-05-06

I need biggest window i this tab. I need large window

avatar BJ L
2018-01-28

1/18 I'm having so much problems with this and just a couple tweaks would make it better! first of all the reddit option for pictues is horrible 1) it won't rotate.. it's been stuck on one pic for 2 days now 2) when it was working and rotating, the pics on that site are utter crap.. and i've done an extensive search for reddit wallpaper.. they are pretty bad - Our other option is to use a pic url - but ppl don't want us drawing traffic to their site just so we can use their url to show a pic on surge.. please give us an option to simply upload a pic from our files -
if i'm going to be stuck with just one pic i'd like it to be one of my choosing

Old review: Doesn't work well. No rotating pics, u have to pick one and stay with it. It will NOT accurately show my weather no matter how many times i try and reset it - it's 26 degrees off! Also not easy to setup- i had to dump it and re instal to try and get new settings I wanted.. not a good product at all - geeshe

fix the weather, allow us to enter our zip code, make the edit page easier,, and if you could make it rotate pics it would be a much better app. i was using skyinc and loved it but their site suddenly went down today so i was trying something new.. i wouldn't even mind a small (small!) ad in the corner so the creator can profit off its downloads.. but overall this is not working..