Xbox New Tab

Stay connected with Xbox in your browser with this official extension from Microsoft.

What is Xbox New Tab?

Xbox New Tab is a popular Edge add-on by Microsoft Corporation. This add-on has 155,274 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.00, and is most similar to uBlock Origin and Microsoft 365. The latest version, 0.0.0.18, was updated 8 months ago.

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By: Microsoft Corporation

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Users: 155,274 ▲ 3.87K

Rating: 4.00 (122)

Version: 0.0.0.18 (Last updated: 2022-09-26)

Creation date: 2021-08-03

Manifest version: 2

Overrides new tab: Yes

Overrides search engine: Yes

Permissions:

cookies
https://*.bing.com/*
https://*.microsoft.com/*
https://*.msn.com/*
management
notifications
tabs
storage

Size: 782.79K

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Other platforms

Xbox New Tab (v0.0.0.25)

46 42,726

Not available on Firefox

ChromeStats Rank

# 245 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#207 in Entertainment

#3 in By Microsoft

#7 in giftcard keyword

#26 in subscriptions keyword ▲ 1

#38 in state keyword

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Summary

Personalize your new tab with themes from:

• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
• Battletoads
• Bleeding Edge
• Forza Horizon 4
• Gears 5
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps
• The Outer Worlds
• Sea of Thieves
• State of Decay 2
• Wasteland 3
• Xbox Game Pass

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User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Nice wallpapers
Dedicated stream of official Xbox news
Livestream tab at the bottom is cool

Cons

Cannot change default search engine
Limited background options
Not much else besides Xbox news and links

Most mentioned

Cannot change default search engine
Limited background options
Dedicated stream of official Xbox news

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Safety

Risk impact

Xbox New Tab requires a number of risky permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Xbox New Tab if you trust the publisher.

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Risk likelihood

Xbox New Tab has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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