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New Tab Redirect

Allows a user to provide the URL of the page that loads in a new tab.

Users700KCurrent public install base
Rating4.1Store average score
Reviews3,191Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version3.1.6
ManifestV3
Size1.52MiB
Languages1English (United States)
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Allows you to change the new tab page to the New Tab Redirect app page, or a custom URL of your choice!

Choose from chrome's about pages, *NewTab, Extensions, Downloads, History*, a few popular URLs, or provide your own. Your custom tab can also be a local file, allowing you to create your own new tab page. Saving blank text will cause your new tab to be about:blank.

Files can begin with: file:\\, file://, and file:///

Important: This is not meant to replace your homepage, only new tabs. If your browser is set to load the New Tab page as your homepage, there may be odd consequences.

Note: Because this extension perform a "redirect", I have no control over address bar highlighting or focus.

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Store average score4.1Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.0Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text1,324Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews3,191Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.1. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Alexey Tarasevich2026年6月26日
5

Very good. The blinking soccer championship banner was supper annoying. It's nice that you can replace it with about:blank.

Version 3.1.6Language en
lfx8 galiya2026年6月23日
5

This version is outdated and no longer compatible with modern browsers. Try the latest one instead. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/new-tab-redirect-and-tab/fdnjdiboighnbnandlbdcceakpnkdaad

Version 3.1.6Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Maria Fernandez2026年6月22日
1

I cannot see, after half an hour of clicking on everything I can see on my screen, how to add the URL I want as the home page. It must be hidden somewhere, but I simply cannot see it.

Version 3.1.6Language en
Cédric2026年6月16日
5

Thanks. Another Google stupidity... Why opening the "no url" tab by default ? Why not letting the user DECIDE ? Mystery... PS : for user having issue, uninstall the extension, restart chrome completely, reinstall the extension, then the first tome you do CTRL+T Chrome will alert you about a page modification, you MUST says "KEEP".

Version 3.1.6Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Vladislav Ohremenco2026年5月31日
4

The fact that brave needs this extension is... well extremely uncomfortable. Good to know that there is an extension like this. It is simple It's easy to understand It's easily installed

Version 3.1.6Language en
Matthew Bennett2026年4月19日
1

not working for me

Version 3.1.6Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
ec me2026年4月15日
1

Doesn't work for local files. (Permissions given as described in extension options, file is readable, etc.)

Version 3.1.6Language en
Michelle Murray2026年4月1日
2

This works for a single browser. Doesn't seem to work when I select 'sync url with other browsers'. Also, entering changing the URL doesn't work. Just sticks to the 'New tab redirect' page.

Version 3.1.6Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
dario m2026年3月3日
1

me parece muy intrusiva, esta viendo mis datos y hay que darle accesos para hacer cambios. No me gusta.

Version 3.1.6Language es
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Sean Tuohy2026年2月23日
5

It works perfectly! I really thought my browser was able to do this itself until I realized it can't, so this saves an extra step by not having to press home every time I open a new tab in Chrome! That's a lot of saved clicks which equates to saved time and money!

Version 3.1.6Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful