Yet another new tab emblankener. For some reason you need to write an extension to do this, smh. Looks exactly like the default dark-mode new tab sans Google.

Grab blank-new-tab.crx. Failing that, clone or download this repo and load the blank-new-tab directory (the one containing manifest.json) as an unpacked extension.

To cut a new release:

• Bump version in blank-new-tab/manifest.json
• git commit
• git tag
• git push && git push --tags
• chromium --pack-extension=blank-new-tab --pack-extension-key=blank-new-tab.pem
• Upload blank-new-tab.crx to latest release on GitHub

We have CI at home.

All three lines of mine are CC0-1.0/public domain.

The favicon is taken from the Chromium project:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/app/theme/default_100_percent/common/favicon_ntp.png https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/app/theme/default_200_percent/common/favicon_ntp.png

...then inverted for dark mode:

mogrify -channel rgb -negate +channel favicon_ntp-100.png
mogrify -channel rgb -negate +channel favicon_ntp-200.png

...then reoptimized:

pngquant --quality 100 --speed 1 --verbose favicon_ntp-100.png
pngquant --quality 100 --speed 1 --verbose favicon_ntp-200.png 

optipng -o7 -zm1-9 favicon_ntp-100-fs8.png
optipng -o7 -zm1-9 favicon_ntp-200-fs8.png

rename '-fs8' '' *-fs8.png