DevX New Tab

A keyboard-first replacement for Chrome's new tab page. Fuzzy-search open tabs, bookmarks, and recently closed tabs; save windows as named workspaces; attach notes to URLs.

No accounts, no telemetry, no network calls.

Features

• Tab search — type to fuzzy-search open tabs across all windows. Empty input shows your most-used tabs ranked by frecency.
• @b <query> — search bookmarks.
• @r <query> — list and restore recently closed tabs.
• @s — list saved workspaces. @s save <name> saves the current window's tab set; restoring a workspace opens it as a new window. The window remembers which workspace it came from, so updates go to the right place.
• @n — list and search notes. Highlight any result and press Ctrl+E to attach a short note. Notes appear inline under matching tabs/bookmarks.
• Quick links — customizable shortcuts shown below the search bar. Clicking focuses an existing tab if one matches.
• Web search — Ctrl+Enter for Google, Ctrl+Shift+Enter for Brave.
• / anywhere on the page — focuses the search input.

Install (from source)

npm install
npm run build

Then in Chrome:

1. Open chrome://extensions
2. Enable Developer mode
3. Load unpacked → select the dist/ folder

Develop

npm run dev

Webpack rebuilds on save. Reload the extension in chrome://extensions after each rebuild.

Storage

Data	Where	Synced
Quick links	chrome.storage.sync	yes
Notes	chrome.storage.sync	yes
Workspaces	chrome.storage.local	no
Frecency stats	chrome.storage.local	no
Window→workspace bindings	chrome.storage.session	cleared on Chrome exit

See PRIVACY.md.

Permissions

Permission	Why
tabs	Read tab titles/URLs for search; switch focus between tabs.
bookmarks	@b bookmark search.
favicon	Display each result's favicon.
storage	Persist quick links, notes, workspaces, frecency.
sessions	@r recently closed tabs.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.