GlimTab

GlimTab is a lightweight Chromium new tab extension with a widget grid, wallpapers, and adaptive contrast.

Current version: 1.1

Russian documentation: readme_ru.md

Features

• Responsive column grid with drag and drop, resize handles, and scroll when the board grows.
• Site widgets with cached favicons, fallback letters, custom icon shapes, and labels.
• Search widget with Google, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo, optional engine picker, and suggestions.
• Clock widget with digital and analog modes, 12/24-hour display, optional seconds, and localized AM/PM.
• Text widget for multiline notes with automatic font fitting.
• Wallpaper presets, solid colors, and local image files.
• Adaptive widget colors based on wallpaper luminance.
• Localized interface for English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, and German.

Installation

For development:

1. Open chrome://extensions.
2. Enable Developer mode.
3. Click Load unpacked and select this project folder.

For regular Chromium-style installation, build or download the signed dist/GlimTab-1.1.crx package and open it in Chromium. Some Chromium builds restrict side-loaded CRX files; in that case use an extension install policy or install from a store.

Build

./scripts/package.sh
./scripts/package-crx.sh

Build artifacts are created in dist/.

Usage

Action	How
Add widget	Use the + dock button
Open settings	Use the ⚙ dock button
Move widget	Press and hold a widget, then drag
Resize widget	Open ⋯ → ⤢, then drag an edge or corner
Edit widget	Open ⋯ → ✎
Remove widget	Open ⋯ → ×

Project Layout

src/
├── core/        state, storage, version
├── grid/        board layout, placement, geometry
├── widgets/     widget implementations and registry
├── features/    wallpaper, search suggestions, shortcuts
├── i18n/        UI locale JSON files
├── ui/          dialogs and settings UI
└── newtab/      extension page entry point
_locales/        Chromium manifest translations

Widget API notes are in src/widgets/README.md.

License

MIT