News Tab

A Google News RSS feed reader for Chrome's new tab page focused on being as fast as possible

Download for Chrome here

Features

• Top stores from Google News
• Most visited websites
• Dark Mode
• 12 different themes
• Upload own theme images
• Current weather & forecast weather
• Select from 91 different regions and languages including United States, India, China, and others
• Select from 10 different topics including Topic Stories, Business, Technology, Sports, and others

Technical

• Loads faster than the default Chrome new tab page
• Bootstrap 3, jFeed, simpleWeather.js
• HTML5 File API for uploading images to local storage
• Responsive design
• Thumbnails are cached in base64 encoding for 30 minutes in Chrome local storage for speed (because cache headers are not sent by Google)
• Parsed RSS feeds are cached 30 minutes in Chrome local storage for speed
• Settings stored in Chrome sync'ed storage.
• Fonts included locally for speed
• Weather forecast loaded from Yahoo Weather

Performance

Development

To run JS/CSS/HTML concatenation/uglification/optimization

> gulp watch

To create a release

> ./release.sh

Screenshots

Future Features

• Full screen theme image
• Allowing arbitrary RSS feeds
• Rotating theme images (on every load, daily, weekly)