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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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Nery2014年7月10日
5

Muy bueno! ya no soportaba ver esas ventanas en mi pantalla.Gracias!

Language es
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Sia Gholami2014年7月5日
5

Nice workaround. Hopefully google get the hint that their new tab page is absolute garbage, when over 500K users need an extension to get around it.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
M Taylor2014年7月2日
5

Works as advertised. But what really drives it to 5 stars is how it handles permissions. Unlike most Chrome extensions, New Tab Redirect installs with a minimal set of permissions, and only asks for more if you decide to use the extra features that need them. This is the example that all Chrome developers ought to follow.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Matt Dellios2014年7月1日
5

It's incredibly difficult to believe that this isn't built in to stock Chrome! It is so mind-bogglingly useful!

Language en
JJorio Silva2014年6月28日
5

muito bom

Language pt
1 helpful · 3 not helpful
Akshay Illiparambil2014年6月25日
1

All it does is remove the picture for the theme in chrome...

Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
kaya nemati2014年6月25日
4

sh_z perfect

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Dante Zubov2014年6月25日
5

Finally no annoying, flashy, distracting Google Doodles every day. Thank you!

Language en
SHARAT MENON2014年6月24日
5

add new tab redirect in Google chrome settings.

Language en
Ben Rogers2014年6月24日
5

Does exactly what it says

Language en