When comparing Card Board vs Dream Afar, the Slant community recommends Dream Afar for most people. In the question“What are the best new tab extensions for Chrome?” Dream Afar is ranked 39th while Card Board is ranked 55th. The most important reason people chose Dream Afar is:
Things like the most visited sites and the search bar can be removed from the new tab.
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Pros
Pro Open source (MIT)
Source code can be accessed at https://github.com/dotlouis/cardboard
Pro Lots of widgets
The extension has cards for apps, bookmarks, quick settings, top sites, downloads, history, session and system.
Pro Can provide system information
The extension has a widget that displays CPU and memory usage as well as storage information.
Pro Google Now style layout
The extensions has a clean customizable card-based interface.
Pro Can be customized to remove clutter
Things like the most visited sites and the search bar can be removed from the new tab.
Cons
Con Limited customization options
While it's possible to choose which cards are displayed, there's no way to change the order of cards.
Con Limited number of images
Some locales and images from those locales start repeating after about a month of use.