New Tab Redirect

Allows a user to provide the URL of the page that loads in a new tab.

What is New Tab Redirect?

'New Tab Redirect' is a user-friendly Chrome extension, designed to enhance your browsing experience. It permits users to modify the default new tab page to a chosen URL or local file. This ensures you have complete control over your browsing. Conveniently, the redirect function offers a range of options, including popular URLs, chrome's about pages, or you can insert your own preferred address. However, this extension is solely for new tabs, not homepages.

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By: Jim Schubert

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Users: 700,000+

Rating: 4.05 (3,144) ▼ 1 ratings

Version: 3.1.6 (Last updated: 2023-10-25)

Creation date: 2019-07-06

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Overrides new tab: Yes

Permissions:

storage
favicon

Host permissions:

file:///
file://
*://*

Size: 1.59M

Email: ja*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 703 ▼ 75

Other rankings

#1082 in Tools ▼ 9

#2 in new tab keyword 45

#2 in new tabs keyword 44

#2 in redirect keyword 53

#3 in tab keyword 82

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Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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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.

Report Bugs

https://github.com/jimschubert/NewTab-Redirect/issues

User reviews

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Pros

Simple and straightforward functionality
Works well across different browsers (including Brave and Edge)
Provides a way to set a custom new tab page
Has a large user base and active interest for ownership transfer
Enables focus on the new page rather than the address bar

Cons

Extension disables automatically at times, requiring re-enabling
Requires a full URL format to work properly
Asks for permissions that some users find unnecessary
May not open local files as expected in recent versions
Users wish for a more minimalistic version without extra features

Most mentioned

Extension disables automatically
Request for management access permissions
Need for full URL format
Functionality issues with local files
Overall satisfaction with basic functionality

Recent reviews

New Tab redirect is a perfect tool that meets my minimalist expectations

Shankar Ganesh, 2024-08-25

Владимир Соловьёв (vovkasolovev) - ты лучший

Victor Pavuk, 2024-08-15

this has became useful soo much, my newtab without this is a fake random new tab, and this allows me to change it back to the chrome deafult tab, this is the only solution to it so 5 stars, also useful when you need to open alot of the same website.