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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

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Sarj Sahansra2014年4月24日
2

Great theory but how the hell do you use this thing once it's installed??? I've tried Google search, their own website and other online sites but nowhere does it tell you how to change the redirect once you did it the first time. VERY annoying!!!

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Jasper Lieber2014年4月24日
3

I loved this but it stopped working for me. On options page, I see: "As of Chrome 33, chrome-internal://newtab/ no longer works." Is this why it's not working anymore? Is there work-around? Perhaps I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling...

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Gabriel cox2014年4月23日
1

it sucked so much I cant even change it

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0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Regina Vladi2014年4月23日
5

Please add an option to clear url bar. I have to clear it manually every time I want to search something

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bonnie2014年4月23日
5

I've had this installed for a long time. recently, it stopped working correctly, but I wonder if it had something to do with the redesign? I reinstalled it and all is good again. I really like the new look. thanks for the extension!

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Sebastián Paternina2014年4月21日
1

no me gusta

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1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Anatol Kryzhanouski2014年4月21日
1

too slow new tab redirect works faster

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2 helpful · 2 not helpful
Sam Tighe2014年4月20日
4

would like to see the omnibar autoselect, but i understand that this is not possible at this point in time. Screw you google.

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Anonymous user2014年4月17日
4

In Chrome 33, it does not highlight the url bar. (only places the cursor at the end of the url) Can you add this functionality please?

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Hiram Murray III2014年4月17日
5

Thank you finally something I was looking for.

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