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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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Cory Williams2014年3月20日
2

Sorry, too much permission access needed now.

Language en
Blake Knight2014年3月20日
5

If you hate Google's "New New Tab Page", you will love this. This brings some sanity back to the Chrome browser. 1) Download this incredible thing! 2) I went to chrome://extensions/ 3) Click options under Tab Redirect 4) Under "My new tab page should show this URL:", type chrome://apps 5) Profit THANK YOU JIM SCHUBERT!!!!!!!!!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Mylen Evans2014年3月15日
5

Thank the Gods, and Jim. Never again do I have to view that nexus of technical malfunction known as a New Tab Page.

Language en
aditya revat2014年3月15日
5

Just a comical idea, why not make the header of the tab editable, instead of new tab redirect. I could change it to "contacting server: Area 51" :)

Language en
Evel Ryu2014年3月13日
3

Seria ainda mais legal se a barra de endereços ficasse vazia depois de abrir a nova pagina.

Language pt
5 helpful · 2 not helpful
Anonymous user2014年3月12日
1

Keeps reseting my chrone, bloody annoying!

Language lb
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
K I2014年3月12日
1

Now it wants to manage my apps, extensions and themes, disabled and removed.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Ryan Shanks2014年3月11日
2

It would be really great if this didn't keep disabling itself every couple of days.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Shelby White2014年3月10日
1

It was just awful. Poor design and absolutely no customization ability.

Language en
2 helpful · 2 not helpful
Paul Chatterton2014年3月10日
2

It has been a very useful app but concerned as to why the new version needs so many extra permissions and extra access to your browser set up. Hopefully the developer will address this asap.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful