Chrome Browser & Leoh

I have a home page I use on all of my browsers.  It is a web page I created a couple of years ago which I update quite often.  It has links to most of the sites I use on a regular or semi-regular basis.

Over the years I have updated, added, and removed links as needed.  Using this home page, I can click direct links that I have created to get to Gmail, Tech Republic, Microsoft, Double Clicks, and all of the other really good sites.  Plus, my bank, the DNR Online.  I also have my own background and a very nice weather station widget so I can always keep up with the most recent guesses from the various weather sites.

I have realized over the years that I have most of my commonly visited site addresses in my head.  I can type their URL in very quickly from memory.  So I do not really need most of my homepage page links.

So, several weeks ago I read about a new extension for the Google Chrome browser that sounds interesting. Its name is Leoh (leoh.io) and it sets up a very nice useful page when you open a new tab.

The original start page/tab with Chrome is one you are familiar with.  You know, the Google page with eight links to your most visited sites along with a few other Google links, shown below.  With the Leoh extension installed you get many choices on how to personalize your start page.

First, it has numerous choices you can make about your new homepage.  You can choose a colorful background as well as your own or others’ photographs.  You can have the time and weather shown in several different formats.  There is also a links section which has Leoh, Google and other common ones which can be added to or removed from.  There is also an eye icon in the upper left of the page where you have your most visited sites just like on the old start page.

To change most anything on the start page look to the lower left corner and click the gear icon.  There you have all of the current settings available for Leoh.  Click around and you will easily figure out how to change your page.  Do not be afraid to experiment to get your own perfect page. Try the “Zen” mode for soothing videos.

Another neat feature that you can take advantage of is syncing Leoh.  If you, like me, have a couple of computers and have set up Google Chrome browser with your Gmail account, you know that it will sync your bookmarks, etc. between computers automatically.

If you have already set that up all information from Leoh is synced so no matter if you are at work or at home, your options and preferences set up on one computer will go out to all.

If you like to spice up your browser’s simple old start page, I highly recommend you take a look at Leoh.io.

Check the arrows on my Leoh page for things to check on yours.