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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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Juan2014年4月25日
1

Tiene un troyano.

Language es
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Paul Dowsett2014年4月25日
5

Reading the version 3.1 update notes, it reminded me how developers are often so unappreciated for their highly-skilled and demanding work. This extension is excellent, and it's clear to see how conscientious and trustworthy the developer is. I cannot recommend it enough. 5 stars!

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Anonymous user2014年4月25日
2

This was great until the update yesterday. Now the cursor focus on a new tab changes to the end of the address bar, and it's not highlighted. It used to automatically go to the Google search bar (with Google as my default new window), or at the very least, highlight the URL so a search could be easily done. I hope this gets fixed soon!

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ryan Grush2014年4月25日
4

I've had this extension running for years and it's just in the background, worked perfectly like good software should and I took it for granted. I appreciate the hard work so I'm not going to leave a bad review but the 3.1 update moved the cursor to the URL or Omnibox instead of the Google search bar and I'm all out of whack now. Please fix this soon. Thanks again

Language en
6 helpful · 0 not helpful
Rα (RandomAcronym)2014年4月25日
5

It works. Props to Jim for dealing with all the haters.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Alex Crewe2014年4月25日
4

wish I could just new tab and type still but the url is no longer highlighted... hope this will change soon. great app other than that!

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Srdjan Bogunovic2014年4月24日
3

New Tab redirect is awsome ,but what i dont like in new 3.1 version is when i redirect to http://google.rs for example the cursor stays in the adress bar (up there),not in the google search bar...so i have to manually click down into the google search bar...and this is the reason why i installed New Tab redirect at first..because cursor stucks in upper adress bar in Chrome default new tab screen.I wish this could be fixed!I think version 3.0 didnt have this problem!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Alex Wu2014年4月24日
4

Great app. Would it be possible to have the option to center all the apps on the "default" page like the standard "chrome://apps" page? Also, is there anyway to add a dropdown similar to the old "recently closed tabs" that the old default chrome home had?

Language en
ZombeeWhisperer2014年4月24日
5

I absolutely love this New Tab Redirect Extension. People need to quit complaining about additions to this program, so what about permissions. If you don't like em then make your own extensions!

Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Guillaume Prost2014年4月24日
4

c'est vrai que c'est pas très élégant mais pratique (une technique : ouvrez sur chrome://apps/ pour avoir votre thème avec )

Language fr
6 helpful · 3 not helpful