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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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Sacha Crompton2013年10月18日
2

Had to stop using this great extension because each time Google Chrome crashes the extension hides the "Restore" button making sessions "unrestorable" after a crash. Until this major bug is fixed I have to stop using this to avoid losing my session.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ivan Glushkov2013年10月15日
5

Thank you! Now it's my favorite extension! Much faster to load, not social notification for the new tab - ideal new tab page! Thanks a lot!

Language en
2 helpful · 2 not helpful
James Heartney2013年10月12日
5

Yay! Undid Google's UI mistake.

Language en
Janis Mades2013年10月12日
3

Oft wenn ich eine Adresse eingebe und Enter drücke, lädt sie nicht und ist von der Leiste weg, also neu eingeben...

Language de
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Anonymous user2013年10月12日
4

the problem is that i type more quicker in url bar that the site loads, so its overwrites my first typed letters... its not confortable. But the plugin is good. thanks .

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Travis Roesner2013年10月11日
5

Thank goodness for this extension - this fixed what I hated about the new Chrome update.

Language en
Anonymous user2013年10月10日
4

Works fine for those who want to start with a specific page in a new tab. However for those who just like to start with a blank new tab, the only option is to specify about:blank and the cursor will be placed after the text "about:blank", which prevents you from start typing an URL straight away.

Language en
1 helpful · 2 not helpful
Justyn F2013年10月9日
5

Thanks, the new Chrome "New Tab" page is awful. I like the old "New Tab" page and this let me change it back.

Language en
蔡宗穎(Namelessone)2013年10月8日
5

excellent to fix stupid Google official update

Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Marc Robinson2013年10月7日
5

Works exactly as described! I set my new tabs to go to chrome://apps/ and it works just like it did before the update.

Language en