When you open new tab in most browsers you got plenty space wasted on automated pages like most frequently visited. Well, what if I visit some pages 3-4 times a month but I’d really like to have them quickly accessible. Bookmark toolbars times are gone… they stick on screen, they’re awful to manage (4 clicks to get to ONE “well categorized” bookmark???).

This single screen replaces 3-click deep bookmark tree.

Now how it’s done.

1. Get “New Tab Favorites”* Google Chrome Extension,
2. find it’s files and replace newtab.html with your own file.
3. Voila!

*) other new tab extensions will do as well but this one leaves address bar EMPTY so it’s faster to paste or search on new tab.

…But I like my html to be cleared of all unnecessary mess which in many cases end up like this:

<a href="...">link1</a> <a href="...">link2</a>

generates awful:

link1link2

In addition if you like having your templates indented it leaves awful things like:

<div>
                                Test text testt
                             </div>

Here’s my “smart” version of strip_spaces_between_tags which can be used with overrided spaceless template tag:

def strip_multiple_spaces_between_tags(value):
    """Returns the given HTML with multiple spaces between tags removed."""
    def tagcheck(obj, prefix='', sufix=''):
        tag = obj.group(1).lower()
        if tag[0] == '/':
            tag = tag[1:]
        if tag != 'pre':
            return '%s<%s>%s' % (prefix, ''.join(obj.groups('')), sufix)
        return obj.group(0)
    def tagprecheck(obj):
        return tagcheck(obj, sufix=' ')
    def tagpostcheck(obj):
        return tagcheck(obj, prefix=' ')

    value = force_unicode(value)
    value = re.sub(r'<(/?[\w]+)([^>]*)>\s{2,}', tagprecheck, value);
    value = re.sub(r'\s{2,}<(/?[\w]+)([^>]*)>', tagpostcheck, value)
    value = re.sub(r'>\s{2,}<', '> <', value)
    return value
strip_multiple_spaces_between_tags = allow_lazy(strip_multiple_spaces_between_tags, unicode)

This does few things:

• it removes all multiple spaces between tags,
• it removes all multiple spaces at from “<tag> HERE text HERE </tag>” on all tags except pre.

If you find it useful or you have fix/extension to it (any other tag I should think of?) please feel free to comment.