50% of Users Stay with Pre-Configured Browser Home Page (2007) [pdf]

To be honest, using another website or extension didn't really give the best experience for me.

A few years back, I decided to try out a extension that changes the homepage. It was horrible in UI and UX wise, and it was one of the top trending extensions on the Chrome Web Store.

The default homepage is just simple and to the point, just a white page with a search bar.

I used to maintain my own handmade file:/// homepage with links and I too now simply live with my browsers topset of recommendation but I wish I had two more elements of control

1) to be able to order them 2) to control the size of the grid by cell count total or row

Been using about:blank for decades.