OceanHero 17+

Our environment friendly new tab sets your search bar to OceanHero. With each search you protect the ocean and reduce plastic waste.

What's New

• Video backgrounds
• Icon to quickly change backgrounds
• Updated search results page
• Bug fixes

Description:

How it Works

On average, OceanHero can collect one plastic bottle for every five searches you complete, or every 17 new tabs you open. That means by using our browser extension with OceanHero as your default search destination you can help contribute to cleaning the planet and protecting our environment by removing plastic from the ocean.


Our Impact

100,000+ people have already helped us reduce 60 million plastic bottles from the ocean by simply setting their homepage to OceanHero. By using the OceanHero live start page, our users contribute to a cleaner and more sustainable digital future.


Our Partners

We partner with marine-focused environmental organizations working to clean the planet, like Plastic Bank and World Free Oceans to make a positive impact through the use of our product. To learn more, please visit https://oceanhero.today/about-us/our-mission.


What’s Included

When you download OceanHero, you get a sleek browser tab homepage with hundreds of hd wallpaper choices and custom backgrounds, light and dark mode, a smart search box with suggested results, embedded calculator, and speech to text functionality, a recycled bottles counter, and a fun way to connect and share GIFs with other people who are using the extension.


Settings and Features

• Custom new tab homepage with hd images and videos

• Smart Search Bar to quickly get you the info you need

• Bottles collected counter to see how many bottles your searches have helped collect

• Bookmarks and frequently viewed sites

• Mini games with dozens of fun options

• Connect with friends to collect plastic together

• Send GIFs directly to your friends new tabs


Your Privacy Matters to Us

Your searches are always SSL encrypted. As any other extension, OceanHero requires certain permissions in order to function properly.

• "Read and change data on all websites": This permission allows us to highlight companies on websites that pollute the environment.

• "Communicate with cooperating websites": These permissions are needed to communicate with our web services.

• "Replace the page that you see when opening a new tab": We will update your new tab page so that you can easily search with OceanHero every time you open a new tab.

• "Read a list of your most frequented websites": The extension needs this permission to display your most frequently visited sites on the new tab page.

• "Change your search settings to OceanHero.today": We will use this permission to update your default search to OceanHero

You can read our full privacy policy at https://oceanhero.today/about-us/privacy-policy .