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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
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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

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Jeff Chao2012年4月29日
4

Works great, however there should be an option for the keyboard to automatically start off on the omnibar like with the default new tab.

Language en
Davit Petrosyan2012年4月16日
5

Good Extension. :D Thnx

Language en
1 helpful · 3 not helpful
Rohini Gandhi2012年4月14日
5

WOW! Just Great! I hated the new tab page because it was unorganised. So i tried this app out, I loved it! You can get it to redirect to any page you want, not only the Google Page. Sick as!

Language en
Kim AC Rowden2012年4月11日
1

BE CAREFUL! - this extension added a malware/spam pop-up in the lower right of my browser screen.

Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Aivaras Ramanauskas2012年3月30日
4

5 stars when this plugin focuses address bar when you set new tab as your bookmarks. Now it's pretty annoying as the focus goes to the search field of bookmarks.

Language en
Daniel Jeffery2012年3月23日
5

Works perfectly. Why this isn't built-in setting in Chrome I don't know.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jaban David2012年3月20日
4

Works exactly as advertised, and does a fine job. As it is, the homepage used is in the extension's own options, and is thus not copied by Sync. It'd be nice if they'd just use whatever you've filled in as Chrome's "Homepage".

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1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Myke Black2012年3月6日
5

Why is this not already a standard option in Google Chrome? We're on version 17 of the browser already and you still have to use an extension to set your new tab's initial page. One of the few things that IE has over Chrome (there's not many!). Thanks to you Jim for sorting this out for us! You're a hero.

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Anonymous user2012年2月26日
4

It works great, and I love this addon, but I wish it did not have so many features. All I need is addon which redirects the new tab page to a custom URL. This one does that, but it is also filled with quick settings, letting you redirect to other 'popular' pages. To me, this is bloat that really isn't necessary.

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John Tantalo2012年2月8日
5

This is excellent.

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful