Anori: an open source new tab extension

Anori is a browser extension that replaces the new tab page with a grid of widgets you place yourself. It is built by a solo developer working under the handle OlegWock, who credits Ukraine and Poland in the site's own footer, with outside help on GitHub: the repository had 20 contributors, 487 stars and 69 forks as of this read, and its newest release, v2.2.0, went out on September 28, 2026 (anori.app, github.com/OlegWock/anori, both read 2026-09-29).

Widgets live inside folders, so a person can keep a work set separate from a personal one instead of scrolling one long page. It suits someone who wants to assemble their own new tab from a fairly technical widget set: an RSS reader, a calculator, CPU and RAM load, an Anki review counter, alongside the calendar and bookmarks widgets more common to the category.

Choosing Anori means accepting a smaller install base than Momentum or Infinity New Tab, in exchange for open code and narrow permissions. It is not built for someone who wants a single photo and quote scene with nothing to configure; Bonjourr or Momentum fit that habit better.

The project's own README lists 16 widgets: bookmarks and bookmark groups, an embedded page, world time, an RSS reader, notes, tasks, a calculator, weather, a calendar, recently closed tabs, tab stash, tabs on other devices, top sites, CPU and RAM load (Chrome only), pictures, and an Anki integration (README.md, read 2026-09-29). The homepage's own marketing copy still describes "12 built-in widgets." That number predates a commit in the repository's recent history titled "Add Tab stash and Synced tabs widgets," so the fuller list above is what the current release actually ships (anori.app, github.com/OlegWock/anori, both read 2026-09-29).

There are 8 pre-built color themes, plus the option to build a custom one. Permissions are scoped per widget rather than requested up front: Anori ships with a small default set (background alarms, isolated extension storage, closed-tab access that withholds page titles and URLs) and only asks for wider permissions, such as full browsing history or bookmark access, once a widget that needs them is added (anori.app/privacy, read 2026-09-29). The weather widget calls Open-Meteo for geocoding and forecasts, and an optional onboarding step calls ipinfo.io once to prefill location and time zone (anori.app/privacy, read 2026-09-29).

Anonymous usage analytics exist but sit off by default. Turning them on sends event and configuration data to PostHog and Amplitude under a random per-user ID, alongside an IP address, and the same page states the data is not sold or passed on elsewhere (anori.app/privacy, read 2026-09-29).

Install it from the Chrome Web Store for Chrome or another Chromium browser, from Firefox Add-ons for Firefox, or from Microsoft Edge Add-ons for Edge (README.md, microsoftedge.microsoft.com, both read 2026-09-29). After installing, accept the browser's own prompt to set it as the new tab page. Onboarding then offers a quick default setup or a manual one; picking the quick setup is what triggers the one-time ipinfo.io lookup described above. No account or sign-in exists anywhere in the product.

Building it from source is documented too: clone the repository, install dependencies with pnpm, then run pnpm dev for a Chrome build or pnpm dev:ff for Firefox (README.md, read 2026-09-29).

Anori has no price and no in-app purchase in any of its three store listings. The only monetary ask is a donation link on a separate page, described as accepting card or cryptocurrency payments, which supports the developer rather than unlocking anything inside the extension (anori.app, read 2026-09-29).

The license changed partway through the project's life. Code up to a named commit in the repository's history was distributed under MIT; everything since is AGPL-3.0, so a copy taken from an old fork or an old release could carry different terms than the current source (github.com/OlegWock/anori, read 2026-09-29).

Contribution is narrow by design: the project takes pull requests only for bug fixes and translations, and a new feature has to start as a GitHub issue for discussion before any code gets written (README.md, read 2026-09-29).

Install numbers are modest next to the bigger names in this category. As of this read, the Chrome Web Store listed 30,000 users, Microsoft Edge Add-ons listed 2,491, and Firefox Add-ons listed 423 (chrome.google.com, microsoftedge.microsoft.com, addons.mozilla.org, all read 2026-09-29). The CPU and RAM widgets work only on Chrome and other Chromium browsers; Firefox does not expose the system APIs they rely on (anori.app/privacy, read 2026-09-29).