Hm, I don't use Instagram, but even on the screenshots, most of these "popular images" aren't something that I'd like to pop out at me. A guy with a puppy... a duckface selfie... cheesy motivational quote... a TMZ cover page (???)... a collage of basketball player snapshots (not even doing anything impressive)...

You might be more interested in this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/more-interestingne...

Shows you images from Flickr deemed interesting.

I use this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go... (Google Earth images on new tab)

That's a cool one, definitely

When I open a new tab, it's because I already have something in mind. I don't need to be distracted from that. I changed my "new tab" view to a blank page. Much better.

Cool idea but will this actually be good in practice. When I go on Instagram a huge number of the popular images are NSFW with partial nudity or other things I wouldn't like to see every time I open a new tab

Right, I will check if Instagram has some NSFW filter on its API. Thanks for the feedback!

I would use it but then I couldn't make $0.10 donations to the impoverished every time I open a new tab: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-for-a-cause/gi...

Do I need another distraction from work?

do i need another distraction before Hacker News?!

I recently quit instagram, I was getting a TON of spam --- people I didn't know making comments on my photos, mentioning me as if they knew me, inviting me to events, to visit webpages, recommending products, etc etc. It was v. creepy

I'm thinking if someone can program a chrome extension for websites/system/network monitoring dashboard by opening a new tab will be wonderful.

This looks cool, but I don't see this overtaking Panda right now :).

Panda?

He was probably referring to https://usepanda.com/

Why do all those sites allow Panda to "frame" them?

Panda is a chrome extension, and is not using iframes or custom stylesheets. It probably uses official APIs wherever available.