ghiblify new tab chrome extension

Replace new tab page with a personal, studio ghibli-inspired tab, tailored to your liking. Every refresh is another chance for another picture. This page is flexible to many preferences, allowing you to get the most out of every new tab.

I was always inspired to make this because I was always a bit sad that many commonly used new tab chrome extensions had paywalls that stopped me from further customizing my themes. Studio Ghibli is nostalgic and soothing, known for Hayao Miyazaki's captivating visual style. They recently (in 2020/2021) released 1,000 pictures for personal use, making this extension possible.

**UPDATE 1.1.5: ** MAJOR UPDATES Changed Logo

**UPDATE 1.1.0: ** MAJOR UPDATES

✨ Features ✨
🌄 Curated collection of studio ghibli photos, free for personal use by studio ghibli
✏️ Easy access customization bar on left when you move your mouse left
❓ Customize which movies you would like to see backgrounds for
🔆 Customize brightness, saturation, contrast, and blur of backgrounds
❤️ select favourites in the left-hand bar (choose to show these exclusively)
🗑️ remove backgrounds you do not want in your rotation
🧠 beta animated background (calm)
👉 NEW user-adjusted right hand bar, saves preferences
🌡️ NEW fahrenheit + celsius adjustment for weather
😮‍💨 NEW mindfulness widget (click to switch to others)
📝 NEW notes widget
⏳ NEW promodoro timer widget
🔗 NEW quicklinks widget
🌠 FASTER image loading
☔️ FASTER weather widget

😔 Youtube music temporarily down for Google's new cookies and webpage access policies.

💻 Widgets you can put on dashboard: Clock, search bar, movie information, to-do list
💻 Toggle widgets on and off on left-hand bar
💻 Freely drag widgets across screen
💻 Click clock to convert to 24-hour/12-hour clocks
💻 Click movie information to customize format (name, Japanese name, screen time, quote, year released)
💻 Right click to-do list to cross out items
💻 Click right hand side of search bar to switch between Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, and Yahoo

✅ Move mouse to right side of screen to access widgets (breathing, weather, gif)
✅ Toggle widgets on and off

Usage

All pictures taken from online sources, credit to Studio Ghibli.

Browser Permissions

These are the permission that the manifest.json asks for:

• Storage: To store the data relating to preferences and widgets
• Geolocation: To access weather information from OpenWeather API
• Tabs: to oepn in new tab

Code

• JQuery
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS