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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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Gregor Purdie2017年12月6日
5

Does exactly what I want - new tab to be Google, with the the cursor in the search box (you can choose to have it in the omnibox if you prefer) I'm amazed this isn't incorporated into the Chrome settings anyway - it's such an obvious thing for people to want.

Language en
Erik Groothuis2017年12月1日
1

Really sucks. Wants extra permissions. Who do you think you are. Zuckwrberg?

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Ivan Llanas2017年11月30日
5

Finally an extension which does what it has to be done. Simply. Minimalist. Great. It would be perfect if it could delete the tab navigation history after redirection, so the very first site in the history is the redirected site instead the redirection page. Thanks for your work.

Language en
Frank Ellermann2017年11月26日
5

Open source on GitHub, perfect for five stars. The explanation of all optional permissions is excellent, but they have no obvious effects (?)

Language en
Lucia K.2017年11月26日
2

I added this because from the description I thought I could get the old tab back - with google search but without the recent sites. However, that's NOT TRUE. There are lots of options, most of which are completely useles for me, such as Internals, and the 'blank page' option. I wish it had more accurate description of what it really is. Removing now.

Language en
Rodney Wallace2017年11月24日
2

The extension is not enabled. I have to enable each and every time I use Chrome.

Language en
Yukiya Nakano2017年11月24日
4

シンプルで使いやすい

Language ja
Chris2017年11月16日
5

Does exactly what I want; replaces Chrome's ugly and potentially intrusive new tab page with the original simple and clean Google search page. The extension is very easy to set up and I haven't experienced any issues with a misplaced cursor, the speed of new tab loading, or needed to delete highlighted text as mentioned by others. Should be the default Chrome setting for new tabs, in my opinion.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Altay Yuzeir2017年11月13日
5

really nice, i made it to redirect to my homepage geeting rid of all the unwanted most visited thumbnails

Language en
Said Alayli2017年11月8日
5

very good

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful