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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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Thomas Merritt2014年6月20日
4

hee

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Emily Diane2014年6月20日
5

yeah

Language en
2 helpful · 4 not helpful
Steven Curtis2014年6月16日
2

Update broke it. Inconsistent behavior. Makes opening a new tab freeze the browser. Problem disappeared when I uninstalled it.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jeff Weaver2014年6月14日
5

I don't know why Google wants to force everyone to do things allot of us do not want to do. This is a good tool to help you fix your new tab. It does what it say and it's easy to use.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Sasuke Uchiha2014年6月13日
3

good but how do I get it back or uninstall it?

Language en
Lechen Tan2014年6月13日
5

Awesome as there is no official solution

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Frank Joyce2014年6月11日
3

3 stars not 5 because it is deliberately atrocious design for purely mercenary reasons to require an extension for this SO BASIC function. I switch to Chrome from Firefox occasionally as a web designer but would never consider it as my default browser and just this 'feature' if nothing else stops me recommending it to clients. (Firefox; go to url about:config, change browser.newtab.url) Anyway, thanks Jim Schubert.

Language en
2 helpful · 7 not helpful
Saffy74112014年6月9日
5

Works great. 5 stars!

Language en
Harriett Williams2014年6月9日
3

To remove this extension, click the 3 lined button in the top right hand corner and select extensions. Then once clicked there will be a lot of extensions (maybe) and beside them are bins. Click on the bin and this extension will be gone

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
zaskya r2014年6月6日
5

Buena. te da la libertad que no te da google chrome.

Language es
0 helpful · 1 not helpful