Try my new extension

[Maan2003]

NTP and Command Extension for Edge

The default NTP of Edge only show upto eight tiles and a tiny favorite bar on the top. This left most of the space on New Tab useless. I developed an extension to make a much better use of space. You can find the Favorites, History, Downloads, Documents, Top sites and Quick links.

Shows up on top of any Tab.

By using a simple shortcut Alt+X it can show on top of any open tab (except the edge:// urls)

Showing on top techcommunity page while I am writing this post.

Turn your Omni Box into a universal Search 

Just type .<space> and you search through :

1. Top Sites

2. History : type history<space><search_query>

3. Switch Tabs : type tab<space><search_query>

4. Settings

5. Close Tabs : do same steps as switching tabs just when you find a tab add -c to the text in omni box like act:tabSwitch-<tab_id>-c

How to Install

1. Go to https://github.com/Maan2003/command

2. Download / clone the repository

3. Enable developer mode in Edge

4. Load Unpacked Extension in the top right corner

5. Suggestion: Go to Keyboard Shortcuts and add Alt+X for the command extension

[#2]

Good stuff,
I think you should add thumbnails and icons to each item in that NTP too.

downloads section should show a small thumbnail of the downloaded file or a nice placeholder if it's not possible for a specific file.
favorites/history/topsites/quick links should all show the website's favicon.
documents should show the correct icon too, PDF/Docs/Txt etc

also see if you can set all of the columns to have the same size (width and height), i'm sure it will look better
so like 6 symmetrical columns or rows next to each other.

the ideal thing would be to have a menu like Windows 10 start menu or Google play's menu on their website.

this website also has some nice free inspirational projects
https://tympanus.net/codrops/

[#3]

Awesome news, looking forward to when the image of the day is in there. I'll try it out after you get that in there.

[#4]

@HotCakeX Check this one out.

On github https://github.com/Maan2003/command

what's new:

1. Favicons

2. All blocks made symmetrical.

3. Can show on top of any page(expect edge:// urls) with Alt +X shortcut.

4. "."<space> has replace "cmd"<space> in omnibox.

5. keyboard navigation with tab and arrow keys

[#5]

Nice good job, this looks a lot better now :)

- could you also add a nice mouse hover effect to the items on each column?
- increase the transparency of the columns background and make them more blurry
- change only the color of the title Bars of each column (downloads, top sites etc), only the rectangle. once you done it, I think you need to change the font color of the column titles too to make them easily readable.
- make all of the items and their icons (together) a little bit bigger. ideally, as big as the items shown on the favorite bar.

Can't wait to see how it will look like after applying all of the above, and thank you :)

[#6]

Btw the reason I said to make the items and icons a bit bigger is because they look small on my screen (1080p 100% scaling) but they look big on your screen, i think because if i remember correctly, you are using a much higher scaling in your Windows settings.

[#7]

@HotCakeX Please download the latest version from github. I have added option to change font size and icon size. Just open /src/custom.js in notepad or some other text editor and set the size according to your preference.

[#8]

@Maan2003 Are you still working on this? I liked what you had so far with the omnibox and the new tab page.