Giphy Tabs

During the last decade or so, GIFs have slowly surged in popularity, and one can argue that they are an important part of our generation’s digital culture. Whoever you are and wherever you come from, there a good chance you’ve heard about GIPHY, one of the biggest online databases for GIFs and animated stickers.

That said, if you are a fan of GIF, the Internet’s most popular visual language, and you feel that your Google Chrome browser could do with a bit more “fun,” then you might want to check out Giphy Tabs.

As its name implies, Giphy Tabs is a Google Chrome extension that randomly brings up some of the most ridiculous GIFs whenever you open a new tab in your favorite browser.

The extension itself is very simplistic, just like the now ubiquitous format it represents. It can be installed on your Google Chrome browser with just a few mouse clicks from the Google Web Store, and it lives in the toolbar, right next to the address bar, just like most extensions.

If the tab remains open and no address is entered, the extensions brings forth a new random GIF from Giphy’s database once every 5 seconds. By clicking the currently displayed GIF, you are instantly directed to its official GIPHY page. You can embed it to your webpage, export it, or share it with your friends. Sadly, you might find this extension to be a bit overly simplistic, and for good reason, since it does not have any sort of options section. It would have been great if the extension would at least provide an option to customize the delay between the GIFs, or even some basic filtering options.

Nonetheless, as it stands, Giphy Tabs is a neat, little extension that requires absolutely nothing from you except maybe a bit of your attention. That said, if you think you can handle the distractions it might provide, then Giphy Tabs is definitely worthy of being added to your Google Chrome.