There’s now a whole library of Chrome extensions which aim to enhance your
There’s now a whole library of Chrome extensions which aim to enhance your “new tab” page, typically by importing new wallpaper from sources like Flickr and Shutterstock.
Delight goes a step further, replacing the usual static images with gorgeous time-lapse videos.
Our first new tab displayed a spinning night sky view. The next, a view from a mountainside, as cloud rushes like water across the valley below. A dark desert floor, the sun setting behind distant hills. The camera pans gently around most scenes, giving a mild 3D effect.
Even scene runs for around ten seconds before repeating. Resource use didn’ t seem too bad — the videos are about 3 to 4MB in size, not a big deal in Chrome terms — and it barely added a fraction of a percentage point CPU usage to our system.
Right-clicking the screen displays options to disable looping, save the video locally or copy the video URL to the clipboard.
Delight isn’ t just about the visuals. There are also links to open your most visited sites, your bookmarks or apps, and there’s a bonus weather tool which displays the current conditions in your chosen cities.
Delight doesn’ t offer many scenes — we managed five or six “new tab” videos before we got the first repeat — so the extension isn’ t going to give you a fraction of the variety of the image-based competition. But what you get looks good to us, and overall it’s an appealing alternative to the usual static wallpaper.
Delight is available for Google Chrome.
