The default new tab page is a search box and a grid of thumbnails you didn’t choose. You open it dozens of times a day, and it gives you nothing back — which is why the whole category of new tab extensions exists, and why most of them stop at a pretty photograph.
Marqly Home takes the same real estate and makes it useful: your saved library is searchable from it, your own quick links and folders sit where you put them, and notes, to-dos, weather, and saved sessions are all in view before you type anything.
Search your library from the blank page
This is the part other new tab extensions can’t do, because they aren’t attached to a library. Marqly Home searches everything you’ve saved, right from the new tab — no opening the web app, no remembering where you filed something.
And it’s semantic search, so you don’t need the title. Describe the thing — “the guide about sourdough hydration” — and the save comes back on meaning rather than exact keywords, across titles, page content, highlights, and video transcripts. Making retrieval this cheap is what turns a pile of saves into something you use daily; the longer argument is in how to search bookmarks with AI.
The practical effect: the reflex of opening a tab and typing a URL from memory gets replaced by opening a tab and asking for what you actually want.
Quick links and folders, arranged your way
Add the sites you genuinely use, drag them into the order that matches how you work, and group the rest into folders so the page stays calm. A configurable dock holds what you reach for constantly, and a background you choose makes the page yours.
None of this is revolutionary on its own — it’s just that the default new tab won’t let you do any of it. Ten seconds of arranging beats a top-sites grid that ranks by an algorithm you can’t see.
Notes, to-dos, and stickies that stay visible
Marqly Home uses a desktop-style layout, with draggable, resizable windows:
- Notes — a scratch pad for the paragraph you’re drafting or the number you need in a minute.
- To-dos — a short list for the things you’re doing right now, not your whole project management system.
- Stickies — left directly on the desktop for the one line you must not lose today.
The value is that this material stays visible. Small, temporary context is exactly what a notes app swallows: you write it down, close the app, and never see it again. On the new tab page, it’s in front of you fifty times a day whether you go looking or not.
Weather sits alongside them, for the same reason — a glance-level fact you’d otherwise open a tab to check.
Saved sessions, back in one move
If you regularly work in a cluster of tabs for a project, save the group and bring it back from the dashboard later instead of reconstructing it from browser history. Combined with saving all your open tabs into your library in one click, it covers both halves of the tab problem: the group you’ll return to on Thursday, and the forty tabs you’ll never reopen but are afraid to close.
More on the second half in the tab saver lander, which explains why closing a window stops being risky once finding things is easy.
The rest of the extension is right there
Because Marqly Home is part of the Marqly extension rather than a standalone new tab app, everything else is one click away from the same page: one-click saving with AI auto-tagging, the six-color highlighter, the side panel that puts your library next to whatever you’re reading, and — in Chrome and Edge — Clipboard History for the snippets you copy while researching.
That’s the argument for a new tab page attached to a library instead of a widget board: the page you look at fifty times a day is also the front door to everything you’ve kept.
Where it works
Marqly Home is available in Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. It is not available in Safari today — Safari gets one-click saving, the highlighter, AI tagging, and semantic search, but not the New Tab dashboard.
There’s no Android app, and the new tab dashboard is a desktop-browser feature by nature; on iOS, the Marqly app covers your library rather than your browser’s new tab.
Getting started
- Install the Marqly extension for Chrome, Edge, or Firefox.
- Sign up free at app.marqly.com — no card required.
- Enable Marqly Home and give it ten minutes: add your six real quick links, pick a background, drop one to-do on the page.
- The next time you’d have opened the web app to find a save, search from the new tab instead.
Details on the whole dashboard are in what is Marqly Home on the New Tab page.
Who it’s not for
If you want a highly programmable dashboard — RSS feeds, API widgets, custom scripts — this isn’t that; there’s a category of tinkerer-focused new tab extensions that goes deeper. And if you have no saved library at all, you’re getting the widget half of the value and skipping the half that makes it distinct.
The fit is straightforward: you already save things worth finding again, and you open a lot of new tabs. Putting the search box for your own library on that page is the whole idea. Try it free at app.marqly.com.
Frequently asked questions
Which browsers is the New Tab dashboard available in?
Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. It is not available in the Safari extension today. Safari still gets the rest of Marqly — one-click saving, the highlighter, AI tagging, and semantic search — but the New Tab dashboard is a Chrome, Edge, and Firefox feature.
Can I search my saved bookmarks from the new tab?
Yes, and it's the reason the page earns its place. Search your Marqly library directly from the new tab instead of opening the web app first. Because search works by meaning, describing what you remember — 'the piece about pricing psychology' — surfaces the right save even when you've forgotten the title.
Can I arrange my own quick links?
Yes. Add the sites you use, drag them into whatever order you want, and group them into folders. There's a customizable dock and a background as well, so the page looks like yours rather than like a template you're borrowing.
What are the notes, to-dos, and stickies?
Draggable, resizable windows on the dashboard for the small stuff that doesn't deserve a document — a scratch note, a short to-do list, or a sticky left directly on the desktop. It's a familiar desktop-style layout, so temporary context stays visible while you browse instead of disappearing into another app.
Will it replace my current new tab page?
Yes, that's how new-tab extensions work: install Marqly's extension and enable Marqly Home, and it takes over the page you get when you open a tab. Only one extension can own the new tab at a time, so you'd be swapping out whatever you use now.
Does it cost anything?
No. The New Tab dashboard is part of the Marqly extension and the free plan is a working setup, not a demo. Pro — $72/year or $9/month with a 3-day free trial — adds chat with your saves and other extras, but the dashboard itself isn't what you're paying for.
