Ability to customize the new tab page

[bbondy]

Allow the ability to customize the new tab page.
I think that's probably different from the home page which is set in preferences.

#2106 (comment)

[rohanthacker]

Is this feature road mapped? or any plans to implement it soon, would be happy to help!

[kingscott]

Hey @rohanthacker! I've been working on it piece by piece - not to interject.

Referencing #2106. You may be able to collab on this specific issue when I have a bit more complete, possibly with some of the logic. I wouldn't mind sharing :)

[kingscott]

@rohanthacker We could use some help on this issue. Tagging @bradleyrichter, as he has the knowledge of tasks for this one...

[rohanthacker]

@kingscott Sure! What you thinking about ?

[kingscott]

This one is probably going to more in the way of styles. Referring to #2106, we discussed a mock-up for what the new tab page should look like. This is the list of tasks that are not being worked on as of now:

• time permitting - allow local image folders for BG image source
• set up frecency-based top-sites list collection/management
• set up data collection/connection to cumulative ads/tracker blocking, plus user-reset command (for display purposes)

[rohanthacker]

@kingscott I guess this is now spec'ed under #3001 ?
I'd be happy to work on the tasks mentioned above.

[bradleyrichter]

Hi @rohanthacker... I am just now creating the real task for the new-tab. The one here grew out of the pref-related item. The parent will be #3001 and we'll make children for each sub task listed in the bottom of the description.

[kingscott]

I believe this has been added. Closing for now...

[benyben123]

Want this as well (:

[ExpandingMan]

This feature is still pretty limited. It would be nice to be able to add ones on icons to a complete grid and re-organize it with folders. Currently it's not possible to manually place a site on the "top sites" list a la opera and vivaldi. It would also be nice to be able to change the background image and time formats.

Is there enough interest in this to open another issue?

[bsclifton]

@ExpandingMan as we've shifted development to brave-core, we're not actively developing this version of the browser (other than security + bug fixes).

You can download the latest Beta for brave-core here:
https://brave.com/download-beta

You can also check out this issue and give it a +1
brave/brave-browser#353