Matrix New Tab

This extension style your new tab's background with an animated Matrix Rainning code. It also try to help you to get a more focused browsing, displaying just the hour, the date and a greeting. Welcome to the Matrix, Neo.

Matrix New Tab - Customized Background and Focused Browsing

Matrix New Tab is a Firefox add-on that styles your new tab with an animated Matrix Rainning code. It provides a more focused browsing experience by displaying only the hour, date, and a greeting instead of web pages you spend more time on.

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Add-on stats

By: João Paulo Buchholz

Daily users: 33

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Rating: 4.00

(6)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2020-02-28)

Version code: 4971627

Creation date: 2020-02-15

Weekly download count: 1

Firefox on Android: No

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
geolocation

Size: 1.13M

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 16,477 ▼ 276

Other rankings

#164 in new tab keyword 43 ▼ 7

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome

Not available on Android

Not available on Edge

User reviews

by 退出党团队远离中共邪教, 2025-03-11

Good fun and cool add-on. Dev helps with what users can do themselves too with some userChrome (if Mozilla doesn't decide to ignore your settings). Having a search bar on there with your specific preferred search provider would make it even be cooler, but that might just be me.

by IgotaBONGO, 2022-05-15

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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Matrix New Tab requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Matrix New Tab has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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