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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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Huanzhi Zhou2017年9月27日
5

好用

Language zh
Anonymous user2017年9月27日
2

De adresbar wordt niet langer volledig geselecteerd.

Language nl
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Sam Fisher2017年9月26日
3

Why isn't the address bar highlighted now? It used to be highlighted so I can start typing right away, now I have to manually select. Please fix this problem...

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Eric2017年9月24日
3

It loads a new page, but unfortunately the URL is not focused and selected so you always have to select the url in there before being able to search for something. Very cumbersome.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Christopher B2017年9月23日
3

USED to be a great extension, now not so much. Please fix this extension. There was an option which highlighted the address but now it just puts the cursor at the beginning. PC, checking the box for Always update tab, not redirect" does nothing, on or off.

Language en
8 helpful · 0 not helpful
Byron2017年9月19日
5

Can you make it to change the color of the background. White is killing my eyes. Thanks

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
John Franson2017年9月17日
4

I've used this extension for a long time with "Always update tab, not redirect" checked so that I could start typing in the address bar right away. It used to be that the address was selected so I could just type over it, but now it's no longer selected, so when I type it just types before the address. Please fix this so it's like it was before!

Language en
7 helpful · 0 not helpful
Alex Haynes2017年9月14日
5

The 'Always update tab' feature is no longer working on my mac, although it still works on my PC. I'm running Chrome 61. EDIT: Problem solved in Chrome 62

Language en
6 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ruby Islam2017年9月11日
5

Very simple.

Language en
Nicholas Woods2017年9月10日
5

Feature no longer working "Always update tab" the first tick-box option no longer selects all text but just places curser at start of address bar. I preferred if it selected all text so i can easily type in new url

Language en
16 helpful · 0 not helpful