This project was based on the official atlas obscura new tab extension: @see: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/atlas-obscura-tabs/odbdedlpknlpnibidnmjcmlopgegggbi?hl=en

Installation

Follow the steps in the latest release: https://github.com/jesusoterogomez/chrome_extension_atlas_obscura/releases

What is it?

A Chrome extension that replaces your new tab page with a random place from Atlas Obscura

Why?

I was missing something that showed something interesting whenever I opened a new tab in my browser. I was looking for something simple (Something that looked like the backdrop images from Chromecast). In my search, I found the Official Atlas Obscura extension

However, I found out that the experience and performance could be improved, some problems I found were:

• Flash of unstyled content
• Animations didn't sync well
• Images and other assets were downloaded from network every time a tab was opened, this meant that performance was variable on every load.

With some free time on my hands, I decided to reverse engineer the project and reimplement it, with mostly the same functionality

Improvements:

• I made some minimal overall changes to the appearance
• Animations are now smoother and staggered when necessary (When loading takes longer as expected, for example)
• Added support for displaying weather in the current location in the right lower corner (a la Chromecast)