The search bar changes its surface color when you hover over the input or focus its controls,
with a stronger dark tint over photos and a subtle matching tint on color themes.
A temporarily unavailable website icon can retry without holding up other icon downloads.
Labels and optional notes line up with their fields in the Add/Edit link dialog.
Switching boards no longer automatically moves focus to web search.
Column cards prevent accidental text highlighting while keeping inline names editable.
1.0.14
Improved
Cleaner, consistent borders on the background color choices, with a clear selected state.
Picture (bottom) has its own compact footer, keeping links clear.
Hover over the picture to enlarge it over the board; click it to open the Quote of the Day.
A six-tip Quick guide points out how to unlock the layout and add columns,
add links, manage boards, find Settings, edit a link with the pencil and open all links
from a column's three-dot menu. Skip it at any time or replay it from Settings.
Find the Terms directly in Settings, above Changelog at the bottom of the menu.
Consistent buttons, fields and spacing across Settings, managers and editing dialogs.
Main actions stand out while everyday controls use a quieter, neutral style.
Radio buttons line up with their labels, including choices that wrap onto several lines.
Simpler board and search-engine rows, with dialog content and actions kept reachable
in narrow or short windows.
1.0.13
Improved
Unlock the layout to reveal a clearly labelled Add column button
immediately left of the padlock. It replaces the small plus in the last column's header.
The full label stays visible in narrow and zoomed windows. Locking hides the button,
and calendar boards and read-only views do not show it.
Empty boards still offer Create the first column without unlocking.
Reloading a tab starts with the layout locked, as before.
Google Maps address search now preserves spaces between selected address lines and fields,
so house numbers and postcodes do not run together. The page selection is read only when
you choose the Maps action; normal inline words and house-number suffixes stay intact.
Search selected addresses in Apple Maps too, opening its Look Around view.
The right-click menu order is now Save to MorrowTab,
Google Maps, then Apple Maps. Both Maps actions use the
same automatic address-spacing correction.
1.0.12
Added
Find saved links searches titles, URLs and descriptions across every
links board. Open it with the toolbar magnifier or Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + K.
Results show the board and column. Use the arrow keys and Enter to open a link, or
choose Show on board to jump to its original location.
Search stays on your computer and does not save your queries. Web search and existing
keyboard shortcuts continue to work as before; no additional browser permissions are needed.
Improved
The same nine backgrounds now include three lighter coloured choices: lavender Purple,
mint Green and blush Pink. Violet is a distinct deep purple; Blue keeps its approved look.
Small link descriptions stay readable on coloured backgrounds. Auto still follows your
system appearance, and uploaded or daily nature photos continue to take priority.
The website previews and manual now show the current toolbar, sectioned Settings and
Find saved links, alongside refreshed calendar and theme screenshots.
1.0.11
Fixed
Reconnecting to the same FixQuotes account no longer fails just because the account ID
uses different letter casing.
If your account was recreated for the same verified email, you can explicitly confirm a
merge of the boards kept on this computer. Local boards, offline edits and the pre-sync
recovery copy are preserved. Signing in alone does not upload your boards.
Service update
The production FixQuotes Sync service now encrypts stored account emails and board data.
Existing accounts and authentication were preserved. This is server-side encryption at rest,
not end-to-end encryption; authorized server operators can still access synced data.
1.0.10
Added
Optional FixQuotes Sync in Settings → Data & privacy. Browser Sync remains
the default and needs no MorrowTab account. FixQuotes Sync uses an email address and one-use
code, offers a 4 MB data budget and up to 5,000 links, and lets Chrome and Edge join the same
account.
Connecting is a separate, explicit step after sign-in. The screen identifies the board, link,
settings and private calendar-feed data that will be stored with FixQuotes and states that the
service uses HTTPS but is not end-to-end encrypted. Nothing is uploaded merely because the
browser budget is getting full.
Each connected computer keeps a durable offline copy and pending changes, retries when the
network returns, and makes an exportable recovery copy of the boards it had before connecting.
Fixed
In Month view, click “+n more” to reveal every remaining event for that day. The button
changes to “Show less” so the events can be collapsed again, and it also works with Enter
or Space from the keyboard.
1.0.9
Added
Select an address on a webpage, right-click, and choose “Search this address on Google Maps” to open it in a new tab.
Open the changelog directly from the bottom of the Settings menu.
Right-click a webpage and choose “Save to MorrowTab” to pick a board and column in the familiar save dialog.
Fixed a startup error when an unpacked extension still has its previous permissions loaded. Reload the extension to enable the new menus.
Opening links no longer produces repeated click-count errors when Sync storage is full; navigation continues normally.
Zoom recording pages now show a download overlay automatically, with links that appear as the player loads. Right-click a recording link and choose “Save link as”. Zoom downloads are available only in the overlay; the extra right-click menu item has been removed. Close the overlay anytime and refresh the recording page to show it again. Keeping the links on Zoom fixes downloads that returned an HTML page from the separate window.
1.0.8
Changed
Day names, dates, empty-day messages and other calendar labels now have a subtle dark outline and shadow around the letters
over photographs, so they stay clear even over bright or detailed scenery.
Each day name stays together with its date, even when that day has many events.
1.0.7
Fixed
Removing a calendar now stops its pending download, so a late response cannot restore
its cached events after removal. Undo still restores the subscription normally.
Oversized calendar downloads stop as soon as they exceed the size limit, keeping the
last successfully loaded events available.
1.0.6
New
Events from a Google calendar open for editing in Google Calendar when you click them, in
the agenda, week and month layouts alike, including meetings that reached that calendar as
invitations from Outlook or Exchange. Outlook's published feeds do not carry what a link
needs, so those rows stay as they are; the ↗ on the calendar's chip still opens Outlook.
Changed
The times in a calendar board's agenda are larger, so the day scans faster at a glance.
The Agenda, Week and Month switch slides between choices, and a calendar chip highlights
all the way to its ↗ when hovered.
1.0.5
New
Calendar boards. When you add a board you can now choose
Calendar instead of Links. A calendar board shows your
Google and Outlook calendars read-only on the new tab, built from up to ten calendars you
subscribe to with their private iCal addresses: Google Calendar's Secret address in iCal
format and Outlook's Publish a calendar link. Timed events show their times,
all-day events appear on every day they cover, past events fade and the meeting in progress
is highlighted. Nothing is ever written back to Google or Outlook.
Copy the address from shortcuts in the calendar editor and on the empty
board open Google Calendar settings, Outlook for work or school, or Outlook.com in a new tab,
right where the iCal address is handed out.
Each calendar gets a name and one of the eight accent colors, and the list syncs with the
board, so your other computers show the same calendars once they are allowed to read those
addresses. MorrowTab asks for that permission when you save a calendar, and offers
Allow access on the board if a synced calendar arrives without it.
Three layouts: choose Agenda (today, tomorrow and the days ahead that have
something on), Week or Month with the switch beneath the
calendar chips, and page through weeks or months with Previous, Today and Next. The week view
names its week number and the month view shows one beside every row. Click a chip to hide
that calendar until you click it again. The layout and hidden calendars are remembered on the
computer you made the choice on.
Every calendar chip ends in a small ↗ that opens that calendar in a new tab, where events
are created and edited. While a calendar downloads, its dot spins in place without moving
anything else, and a failed download is reported in a line beneath the chips, with the
previously downloaded events kept on screen.
Calendars refresh on their own when a new tab opens, while a calendar board stays open, and on
Refresh. Because Google and Outlook update these private addresses only every
few hours, a change you just made can take that long to appear.
Manage calendars (from the board's Calendars… button) lists,
edits and removes subscriptions, with the usual six-second Undo after a
removal.
Manage board replaces the rename pencil in the board list. Its dialog still
renames the board, and for a calendar board also chooses a 12-hour or 24-hour clock (or lets
your browser language decide) and whether Week and Month use the full page width.
Settings → Appearance gains a Board picker choice: keep the dropdown, or
show every board as a button side by side in the toolbar, with a Manage boards button at
the end. The choice syncs with your other settings.
Changed
Over a photo background the calendar's surfaces are solid rather than glassy, so events stay
readable in every layout.
Quick Save, the link editor's column list, Move to board… and column import
offer links boards only; a calendar board has no columns to save into.
1.0.4
Fixed
Repair no longer disconnects another computer's first synced update because one of its
checkpoint pieces is still arriving. MorrowTab now waits whether or not that computer has an
older complete copy to use meanwhile.
If checkpoint pieces arrive before their matching pointer, MorrowTab now stays read-only
instead of opening an older, incomplete copy as though it were current. Boards, columns, links
and search engines return automatically when the remaining Sync item arrives.
When you confirm Repair for a checkpoint that is complete but permanently invalid, MorrowTab
now removes all of that unusable checkpoint's Sync pieces, so the same recovery warning does
not return. Still-arriving checkpoints are never removed this way.
Rearranging boards, columns, links or search engines now reaches another computer even when
both computers independently started from the same earlier layout. An untouched baseline order
can no longer override a real rearrangement.
1.0.3
New
A search engine can now be shown on exactly the boards you choose. Turning
Visible on all boards off reveals a list of your boards to tick, instead of
quietly limiting the engine to the board you created it on. Boards that already hold the
maximum of 20 search engines are marked Full. An engine kept on a single
board works exactly as before.
Settings is reorganised into Appearance, Links & search
and Data & privacy, chosen from a list down the side, so one group of
settings is on screen at a time instead of everything at once. On narrow windows the list
becomes a row of buttons above the settings.
Manage search engines now lists all of them, not just the ones on the board
you opened it from. The engines on the current board stay at the top and can be reordered;
the rest are listed below and can still be edited or deleted, so a search engine is never
stranded on a board you have to go looking for.
Fixed
Dropping a file onto the new-tab page no longer navigates away from it. Open dialogs, a
half-typed search, and the tab's chosen search engine now survive an accidental drop.
Dragging links, columns, boards and search engines to rearrange them is unchanged.
Links that close themselves after a set time are closed reliably again. When several such
links came due together — after Open all links, for example — only one
closed and the rest silently restarted their full countdown. Ordinary browsing in other tabs
could also keep postponing a due tab indefinitely. MorrowTab now does far less background
work as you browse.
Repairing inconsistent synced data no longer discards a still-arriving update from another
computer when MorrowTab can temporarily use that computer's previous complete copy.
Exporting a column now keeps the order you arranged its links in. With Order links by
most used switched on, exporting and re-importing a column previously replaced your
manual order with the click-count order.
Adding a link with an http:// address no longer asks for site access that could
never be granted. MorrowTab now says that page titles can only be fetched from
https:// addresses.
The daily-quote setting is no longer announced twice by screen readers, and keyboard focus no
longer stops on a hidden copy of that control in Settings.
Changed
Sync is stricter about the shape of data arriving from another computer. A malformed or
tampered record is now refused outright rather than being applied to the page, and valid
boards, columns and links are unaffected.
1.0.2
New
Computers can now download missing website icons through FixQuotes without opening every
saved link first. Only the hostname is sent; each computer's icon cache stays outside Sync
and backups. FixQuotes also stores reusable PNG copies in a shared server cache, reducing
repeat requests to the same websites. Download website icons is on by
default and can be switched off in Settings without deleting cached icons.
Each computer now keeps its own compact, validated Sync checkpoint instead of overwriting one
shared copy. A laptop returning after days offline can merge its work without replacing newer
boards and links from another computer.
Changes are merged by record and field. Editing different links or settings on different
computers preserves both changes, while simultaneous edits to the same field resolve the same
way everywhere and remain detectable.
Deletion is conflict-aware: a delete made after seeing an edit is respected, while an unseen
edit made concurrently is kept instead of being silently destroyed.
If that concurrent edit belongs to a link whose column or board was deleted elsewhere, the
retained owner chain is restored too, so the saved link cannot survive only as an orphan.
Concurrent link moves now resolve to one real destination column and its board. Open-mode and
auto-close changes likewise cannot combine into a setting that no computer saved.
Changed
Column and board order no longer decides whether an item exists. A valid link or column keeps
its declared owner even when an older computer sends a stale ordering list.
Existing valid data is upgraded automatically from Sync schema 1 to schema 2. Older MorrowTab
versions become read-only after migration; update every computer to 1.0.2 before editing.
Empty, incomplete, corrupted or still-arriving Sync data stays read-only. It cannot publish the
sample board or replace a partially delivered setup.
Backup files remain available as optional disaster recovery and point-in-time copies, but
ordinary syncing between computers no longer depends on making or importing them regularly.
Sync checkpoints are compressed to fit the browser's extension-storage budget and validated
before use. Compression is not encryption; synced content still follows the browser profile's
normal extension-sync privacy model.
Each ordinary save uses one multi-key Sync write, while obsolete local checkpoint chunks are
cleaned up after editing becomes idle. This avoids exhausting Chrome's rapid-write allowance
during a normal burst of changes.
Even if no checkpoint or usable board can be recovered yet, the page stays read-only and still
offers backup import plus validated local safety-copy restores instead of leaving recovery
actions unreachable.
New users no longer land on a permanent-looking empty-Sync warning. The first-install welcome
page now offers Start with sample board, which initializes before the board is
revealed, and Use my synced boards, which waits without publishing sample data.
Every starter path still performs the final locked empty-store check.
A required Choose how to begin chooser explains why Settings and editing are
unavailable while the sample board is only a preview. New to MorrowTab comes
first; use the sample board, check Sync, or import a backup. There is no close X, and Escape
or an outside click cannot dismiss it. Cancelled imports return to the chooser; validation
errors after Replace keep the retry confirmation available. Existing boards
skip the chooser.
Daily nature photos now start enabled for new sample setups and their read-only previews.
Turn the setting off to stop the public FixQuotes/Pexels background requests. Existing
background choices are left unchanged.
Opening a synced Auto-close link on another computer now offers the needed permission on
first use. Declining still opens the link normally, without an error warning or repeated
automatic prompts. Choose Enable auto-close in the notice to try again for
future openings.
1.0.1
New
Saved links can now use Auto-close after their MorrowTab-opened tab has been inactive for 5,
10, 15 or 30 minutes, 1 hour, or 2 hours.
Returning to a managed tab resets its full timer. Navigating to another site permanently
disables automatic closing for that tab, and active, pinned, audible or loading tabs are never
closed.
The feature is off for every link by default and requests the browser's optional navigation
permission only when you first enable it.
Changed
The link editor now aligns labels and fields in two clear columns on wider screens, then
stacks them naturally on smaller screens. Description is now a single-line field. The
inactivity control is named Auto-close, with each choice stating the inactive
time directly and its explanation appearing only after a timeout is selected.
Balanced the wide Settings layout into equal columns and aligned related actions in compact,
equal-size groups.
Reserved indigo for selected states and primary actions. Upload, backup and import controls
now use a neutral utility style, while maintenance actions stay quiet until hover or focus.
Standardized Settings text controls on a 40px height and aligned the right-column action
controls.
Clear saved suggestions and Reset usage now appear only while
their associated setting is enabled, without a redundant separator above the action.
Column cards now settle into a clearly darker hover state with a quick, smooth fade.
On a newly installed or long-offline computer, the sample board now stays read-only while
existing boards may still be arriving. You can check Sync again or import a backup; starting a
truly new synced setup requires a clear warning about overwriting an existing setup's board
order and settings, plus one final check for arrived data.
If computers merge a valid board, column or link with an older ordering list, recovery now keeps
the still-present item in its declared owner instead of treating it as deleted. Repair remains
read-only until you confirm it; items whose owner is genuinely gone remain excluded.
1.0.0 First release
New
Replaces the new tab in Chrome and Edge with a board of your own links: a board picker on the
left, a search box in the middle, and columns of links below.
Up to 30 boards, each with its own columns, links, extra search engines and ordering. Switch
from the picker or with Alt + 1–9, and the browser tab title shows the active board's name.
Every column carries a ⋯ menu that can open all its links,
rename the column, move it to another board, export it, give it an accent color, or delete
it.
The link editor holds a web address, an optional name, an optional 200-character description, a
destination column that can belong to any board, and a per-link Opens in
override.
A Quick Save popup on the toolbar, titled Save to MorrowTab: it previews the
current tab, lets you pick a board and column and edit the title, and saves that one page. The
suggested shortcut Alt + Shift + S opens the same popup — it does not save in one press.
Quick Save can create a new Saved column as it saves, remembers the last
destination on that computer, and warns once when the board already holds that address.
A starter board called Popular websites — 50 links in five columns (News,
Streaming, Social media, Everyday tools and Shopping). It is drawn from a file inside the
extension and is not written to sync until your first edit.
A welcome page on first install only. It introduces Quick Save, boards, search, rearranging and
the quote modes, and never reappears after an update.
Deleting a link, a column or a board leaves a six-second Undo in the toast.
Drag a link in from another window to drop it straight onto a column, or paste an
http(s) address anywhere on the page to open a prefilled add-link dialog.
Search
Browser default is permanently first in the engine picker and selected on
every fresh tab. It submits through the provider your Chrome or Edge profile is already set to;
MorrowTab never sets or replaces your default search engine.
Add your own engines from any HTTP(S) template containing {query}. Up to 80
engines, 20 per board.
Mark an engine Visible on all boards or keep it to a single board. Every board
still keeps its own engine order.
Saved suggestions come from your own completed searches and nothing else — up to 50 per engine,
offered once you have typed five characters, at most eight at a time, and stored on that
computer only.
Settings can stop new suggestions being saved, and can clear the saved ones outright.
The placeholder reads Search with <name>, or Chat with <name>
when the template points at chatgpt.com.
/ or Ctrl + K
focuses the search box; Alt + ↑ and Alt + ↓ cycle the board's engines.
Searches open in the current tab, or in a new one if you turn that on.
Organizing
Every new tab starts with the layout locked, so a stray drag cannot rearrange anything. The
padlock unlocks it for that page alone, and a reload or a new tab starts locked again.
Alt plus the arrow keys moves columns and links without dragging, and
each move is announced for screen readers.
Move a whole column, with its links, to another board in a single write — with Undo.
Export one column as a JSON file and import it onto another board. A column import is added
alongside what is already there, with fresh identifiers and an Undo.
Order links by most used sorts each column by a per-link click count, and
Reset usage clears those counts. Manual link reordering pauses while it is on.
Columns wrap onto a new row when another readable card no longer fits — there is no sideways
strip and nothing slides off the edge of the screen.
A column of six or more links switches to a denser row style on its own.
Saving an address the board already holds warns inline and lets you keep both copies; it never
blocks the save.
Appearance
Nine background choices, shared across every board: Auto, which follows your
system between a plain white page and a dark surface, plus eight gradients — Purple, Blue,
Green, Pink, Dark, Teal, Red and Violet.
Column spacing is Comfortable or Compact, and the board layout is either Capped cards,
which keeps columns at a readable width and centers incomplete rows, or Fill each row,
which lets them expand.
Eight accent colors for any column — blue, purple, yellow, amber, green, teal, red and gray —
plus No color.
The FixQuotes Quote of the Day in four modes: Text (the default), Picture at
the bottom, Picture at the top, and Off. Off hides it and makes no quote
request at all.
An optional Daily Pexels nature background: one curated high-resolution photo a day, fetched
through FixQuotes, cached on that computer, and always shown with its
Photo by <name> on Pexels credit. It is off until you switch it on.
Or upload your own background image. It stays on that computer, never enters sync, and takes
priority over the curated photo.
Link icons come from a brand library bundled inside the extension, then your browser's own
icon store, then a two-letter badge. MorrowTab calls no outside icon service.
Your data
Boards, columns, links, search engines, the shared settings and the per-link click count are
written to your browser's own extension sync, tied to the profile you are already signed into.
There is no MorrowTab account and no MorrowTab server holding a copy.
Browser extension sync is not end-to-end encrypted, so board names, link titles, addresses and
search templates should be treated as non-confidential.
Nine records stay on one computer and never sync: the selected board, the Quick Save
destination, saved search suggestions and their on/off preference, an uploaded background, the
cached nature photo, the cached quote, and two safety snapshots.
Export a plaintext JSON backup of everything synced. Importing one replaces all synced data
after a confirmation, and keeps a restorable copy of what it replaced on that computer.
Ceilings enforced before anything is written: 30 boards, 120 columns (40 per board), 250 links
(200 per column), 80 search engines (20 per board), 500 sync records and 100 KB in total.
Settings shows a live Synced data: N of 100 KB · N of 250 links readout using the same
arithmetic.
Every write is taken under a lock and compared against the exact data it was based on, so two
open tabs cannot quietly overwrite each other.
If records from two computers ever merge inconsistently, MorrowTab opens a read-only recovery
view where links and search still work, offers a diagnostic snapshot to download, and repairs
nothing until you confirm it.
Three remote addresses, for two features you can switch off: fixquotes.com for the daily
quote — which is on by default — and api.fixquotes.com plus
images.pexels.com for the opt-in nature background. Those requests carry no
cookies, no referrer and no query string; the Pexels image URL carries only the sizing
parameters FixQuotes chose.
Fetch page titles when adding links is off by default. Turning it on still
makes the browser ask your permission for each site before a page is read.
No analytics, no telemetry, no advertising tracker, no content scripts and no remote code.
Accessibility
The board picker, engine picker and quote setting are custom menus that work with the mouse,
touch, the arrow keys, Home and End, and
keyboard typeahead.
Every dialog keeps keyboard focus inside it and returns focus to the control that opened it.
Reordering is announced in full — for example Moved Research to position 3 of 5 — and
a polite status region and an assertive alert region mirror the toasts.
Drag handles publish their own shortcuts through aria-keyshortcuts, so a keyboard
user is told which keys move the thing they are holding.
The page stays usable at 200% browser zoom without gaining horizontal scrolling, and Settings
stays inside the viewport with its content reachable. This is checked as an automated release
gate.
Windows forced-colors mode is supported with real borders, selected states and visible focus
rather than gradients and shadows, and prefers-reduced-motion collapses the
animations.
Platform
A Manifest V3 extension for Chrome and Edge on Chromium 114 or newer. 114 is the floor because
MorrowTab uses the Popover API for its menus, autocomplete and toasts, along with Web Locks,
CSS :has() and color-mix().
Permissions are storage, favicon, search and
activeTab, with standing host access limited to fixquotes.com,
api.fixquotes.com and images.pexels.com.
The optional all-sites permission grants nothing at install. It is requested one origin at a
time, only when page-title fetching is on and only for the site you just typed in.
No content scripts. The background service worker registers a single listener and does one
thing: open the welcome page the first time the extension is installed.
The extension's own content security policy allows no remote script, and limits images to the
extension itself, data: URLs, fixquotes.com and
images.pexels.com.
Brand icons are a bundled subset of the MIT-licensed theSVG Color collection, converted to
plain SVG files at build time. Product names and logos remain the trademarks of their owners,
and their inclusion does not imply any endorsement.
