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: 4.04 (3,140) ▼ 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

URLs: Website

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 684 ▼ 8

Other rankings

#789 in Tools ▼ 1

#2 in new tab keyword 47

#2 in new tabs keyword 50

#2 in redirect keyword 54

#5 in tab keyword 86

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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

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works as intended
Allows local file redirection
Useful for customizing new tab page

Cons

Can be buggy with local file redirection
Requires permissions for file access
May not work with certain Chrome updates

Most mentioned

local file redirection
Chrome permissions
not working with certain Chrome updates

Recent reviews

I've been using this for a long time and I really like it.... BUT... I wasted hours of messing around with why it wasn't working and realized that you need a full URL string in the setting like http://www.website.com instead of just www.website.com. Developer please fix this and either give warning or automatically fix the formatting. Thanks.