
I wanted to start fresh, so I created a new folder locally to store my extension. In essence, my solution would simply need to override the New Tab capability, pick up the daily image from Bing Image Search API and I’d be set. It was infuriating, so I set to get rid of the toolbar as I never seem to use it.įor reference, this is how Edge looks like with the default, built-in New Tab: Too often I would open a new tab, and type in a few letters in the address bar and press enter, and the Bing toolbar would pick that up first and initiate a search on Bing. This is how it looks when I open a new tab now.īutwhy.gif, you ask? Well, the main driver was to get rid of the Bing search toolbar that is there by default. I wanted to fully automate this, so I decided to use Azure as a sort of backend to serve those images. My solution replaces the New Tab page in Edge, and shows a daily image picked from Bing’s Image Search API. As it’s based on the same principles as Google Chrome, mostly the same aspects and internals seem to apply – although there are obvious differences.īrowser extensions are client-side, so usually a mix of HTML, JavaScript and CSS files packed together. I wanted to try out building a custom extension to the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser.

So last night, they went to bed early, and I had some extra time to hack around a solution I’ve been meaning to build for some time now. We put up a trekking tent on the balcony, and the kids are now sleeping there. It’s summer in Finland now – a pleasant +15 C! Hopefully, it will be warmer in July.


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