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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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Anonymous user2014年5月9日
5

works ;)

Language en
Dominic McLeod-Williams2014年5月8日
1

Didn't work

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Sua Ivan2014年5月8日
1

Personalmente, no me ha funcionado con windows 8.1

Language es
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Niall O'Callaghan2014年5月8日
5

I really like this. Cant get the chrome:apps page to select the url once the new tab generates, it requires me to hit CTRL+L which it didn't do beforehand. I now realise that this is because of a Google Chrome limitation regarding omnibar selection. Therefore, I now give this 5 stars. Thanks for making this app.

Language en
20 helpful · 1 not helpful
Sujeet Kumar2014年5月8日
4

i want to report a bug. steps to recreate this are; 1.open a website in a tab 2.click on new tab button 3.switch back immediately to the previous tab (with site opened) 4.new tab apps will open in that tab instead of the new tab .new tab remains blank and the open website will close and apps open on it's own. this extension just closed an opened website

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JOSHUA ADRIAN2014年5月7日
1

awful

Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Michael Maskalans2014年5月6日
5

There is now a check box to keep the omnibar focussed while loading a tab of your choice. PLEASE DON'T CHANGE A THING! It's perfect now! @Brent Allison: Don't give a bad review because you don't know how to go into settings > extensions and disable or remove an extension.

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赖剑波2014年5月6日
5

love it. it's useful

Language en
2 helpful · 2 not helpful
Unbelievable2014年5月5日
5

Exactly what I was looking for. Tired of having to type chrome://apps everytime I wanted a new tab.

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sendblink232014年5月4日
4

All it needs back is the "highlighted" address bar upon opening a new tab :(

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful