Clear New Tab

Name: Clear New Tab
Rating: 4.5 (24 reviews)
Author: loftyshaky

Remove everything from the new tab page while keeping your theme background, or use any image, GIF, or video as a custom wallpaper.

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Clear New Tab is a Chrome extension designed to simplify and personalize your new tab experience. It removes all default content from the new tab page while preserving your installed theme's background or letting you upload your own custom wallpapers — including images, GIFs, and videos. With Clear New Tab, you can cycle through multiple backgrounds or use randomly generated solid colors each time you open a new tab.

Key features include scheduling specific backgrounds for desired dates and times, adjusting background sizing for a perfect fit, and an easy setup process. The extension integrates seamlessly with browser themes, downloads theme backgrounds automatically, and gives you full control over your new tab aesthetics. Ideal for users wanting a clean, distraction-free start page without sacrificing personal style.

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Version:

6.10.0 Last updated: 2025-01-06

Creation date:

2021-08-06

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Permissions:

storage
alarms
management
offscreen

Host permissions:

https://clients2.google.com/*
https://clients2.googleusercontent.com/*
https://edge.microsoft.com/*
http://msedgeextensions.f.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/*

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2.21M

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Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 1,756 ▼ 6

Other rankings

#87 in Entertainment ▲ 1

#6 in custom background keyword 25

#23 in gif keyword 31

#23 in new tab keyword 48 ▲ 1

#23 in new tabs keyword 49 ▲ 1

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Clear New Tab (v6.10.0)

40,000+ 4.59

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Top 10 Best New Tab Extensions for Chrome in 2025

User reviews

Clear New Tab is praised for its simplicity, clean design, and enhanced customization over default new tab pages, allowing background changes and switching. Common issues include limitations with customizing or removing the default new tab icon, occasional errors causing malfunction, and some feature glitches like video backgrounds not loading. Several users wish for more icon customization and better thumbnail presentation for custom links. Overall, it is highly appreciated but has room for improvements in icon handling and stability.

Pros

Allows customization of new tab background including switching between multiple backgrounds.
Simple, clean, and meets user needs without unnecessary features.
Works better than default new tab settings with more flexibility.
Provides ample space and a clean appearance for new tabs.

Cons

Users desire more control or options for the new tab page icon, such as removing or changing it from the default landscape picture icon.
Some users experience errors causing the extension to stop working (e.g., 'Cannot read property "mode" of undefined').
Some features like setting a video as background do not work as expected (loading indefinitely).
Does not fully match expectations to create a completely 'clear' or blank new tab page.

Recent reviews

Чудесное расширение, Всё что надо и ничего лишнего. Единственное хотелось бы иметь возможность поставить иконку стандартной вкладки или же вовсе её убрать

by Aslan, 2025-03-03

How do I rate this 6 stars, because this deserves 6 stars, THANK YOU

by Louis, 2024-11-30

Why icon of new tab page is a black square?

by Yunfeng, 2024-09-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Clear New Tab requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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Risk likelihood

Clear New Tab has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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