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Scenic View

Click to see stunning landscapes from around the world

Users
3
Works on
Chrome
Version
3.0.2
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You want thirty seconds away from the screen, and the only thing within reach is a social feed that will keep you for ten minutes. Clicking this toolbar icon shows a single landscape photograph, and closing the popup ends it.

Scenic View — click to escape to stunning landscapes from around the world. Every click of the extension icon delivers a new, handpicked landscape photograph — a misty mountain in Iceland, a cherry blossom street in Japan, a crystal fjord in Norway. Click the image to open it full-screen in a new tab. 100% local, no account, no tracking.

A tiny moment of calm, right in your browser toolbar. Scenic View is a curated gallery of breathtaking landscape photography from 11 countries — just click the icon whenever you need a micro-break between tabs. Pick a country or leave it on Random and let the world surprise you.

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What it does

  • 100+ curated landscape photos from 11 countries

    Japan, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, Morocco, Canada, South Korea, Greece

  • One click = one scenic view

    no setup, no onboarding, no account

  • Filter by country or set to Random to travel the world at random

  • Click any image to open full-screen in a new tab

  • Favorite the photos you love

    saved locally

  • Zero tracking, zero analytics

    all images are bundled with the extension and load instantly offline

  • Clean, minimalist popup that gets out of the way

  • Anyone who needs a 5-second micro-break between work tabs

  • Travel dreamers collecting inspiration for their next trip

  • Designers, photographers, and creatives looking for visual inspiration

  • People who want a tiny moment of calm without doom-scrolling social media

  • Anyone who misses the beauty of the world while stuck at a desk

When you'd reach for it

  • A break between tabs that ends when you close it

    The popup opens straight onto a photo — no feed underneath it, no next item queued. The circular arrow in the corner draws another one at random if you want a second look. There is nothing else to click, so the break is over when the popup closes.

  • Looking at one country on purpose

    The dropdown lists eleven countries — Japan, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, Morocco, Canada, South Korea, Greece — with ten photos each, plus a Random option that picks a country first. Your choice is written to Chrome's synced storage, so it survives restarts instead of resetting to Random.

  • Seeing a shot at full size

    Clicking the image opens a bundled viewer page in a new tab, where the photo scales to fit the window against a black background with the country flag and name in the corner. It behaves like an ordinary tab, so you can leave it open behind your work and come back to it.

Permissions & privacy

Single purpose

Scenic View has a single purpose: to display a curated landscape photograph from around the world each time the user clicks the extension icon. The user can filter by country, refresh for a new photo, mark photos as favorites, and click any image to open it full-screen in a new tab. All images are bundled with the extension and load locally — no data leaves the browser.

storageScenic View uses the storage permission to save the user's selected country filter and list of favorited photos locally via chrome.storage. This allows the extension to remember the user's preference across sessions (e.g. "always show Japan") and to keep the list of favorited images. No personal data, browsing history, or page content is stored. Nothing is synced externally or sent to any server.
webNavigationNotices when a tab moves to a new page.
tabsScenic View uses the tabs permission to open a full-screen viewer in a new browser tab when the user clicks an image in the popup. The extension calls chrome.tabs.create() with a bundled viewer page (packaged inside the extension) so the user can enjoy the landscape at full size. The extension does not read, monitor, or collect any information about the user's other tabs, URLs, or browsing activity.
<all_urls>Every site — because it has to work on whatever page you're on.

It runs only the code shipped inside the package — no remote code is fetched.

Questions people ask

How do I get a different photo?

Click the refresh arrow at the top of the popup and a new photo is drawn at random from your current country setting. Reopening the popup also picks a fresh one, so you rarely see the same shot twice in a row. On Random it chooses a country first, then a photo from it.

How many photos are there, and do they download?

One hundred and ten, ten for each of the eleven countries, and they are packaged inside the extension rather than fetched. Showing one is a local file read, so the popup fills in immediately and still works with the network down. The set is fixed until the extension itself updates.

Does this change my new tab page or set a wallpaper?

No. It is a toolbar popup and it leaves your new tab page alone. The full-size viewer opens as a regular tab that you close like any other, and there is no button to download a photo or apply it as a background.

What does the heart button do?

It marks the photo currently on screen and fills the heart red, and clicking it again unmarks it. The list is kept in local extension storage and holds the most recent hundred entries. This build has no separate gallery screen for browsing what you marked.

Why does a photo extension ask for access to all sites?

The manifest declares storage, tabs and webNavigation along with host access to all sites. The features you touch use two of those: storage keeps your country choice and the photos you marked, and tabs is what opens the full-size viewer page through chrome.tabs.create. The photos themselves are read from files inside the extension package. The other two are broader than the photo feature — webNavigation is the permission for being told when a tab has finished navigating, and all-sites host access is what permits an extension to run on any site rather than a listed few. Neither takes part in picking or drawing a photograph.

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