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Card Board

The default New Tab is not Google enough ? Try Cardboard, Now with more Material Design (plus nifty features)

v2.1

##Installation

Warning: This is for development purpose and not the right way to get the extension for daily use. If you want the stable version head over the Chrome Web Store and install it from here.

bower install
Delete the bower_components/chrome-platform-analytics/src/ directory otherwise Chrome will complain about multiple manifest.json
Open chrome://extensions/
In top-right corner tick Developer Mode
Click Load unpack extension and choose the root cardboard folder

Notes on permissions

Some of theses permissions are not optional only due to manifest/API limitations: learn more

storage: to save user's settings such as background image
sessions: to retreive chrome sessions linked to your account and display them in a card
browsingData: to allow the quick-settings card to remove your cache, cookies, history and local storage
downloads: to display your recent downloads
downloads.open: to open files you have downloaded from the download card
system.cpu: to collect and display your computer's cpu usage
system.memory: to collect and display your computer's memory usage
system.storage: to collect and display your computer's storage usage
https://hawttrends.appspot.com/api/terms/: to fetch google trends at this address
[Optional] tabs: to show your recently closed tabs (session card)
[Optional] topSites: to display your most visited websites
[Optional] bookmarks: to display your bookmarks
[Optional] management: to display your apps
[Optional] history: to display your history

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