Custom New Tab

Customize the new tab URL.

What is Custom New Tab?

Custom New Tab is a lightweight Chrome extension that allows you to customize the new tab URL, pointing it to a URL of your choice such as Google, your company's homepage, or a blank page. It also offers customization options for focus on the address bar and easy disabling of the extension.

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By: https://dictanote.co

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 8,000+

Rating: 4.36 (11) ▼ 0.34

Version: 1.7 (Last updated: 2024-04-25)

Creation date: 2022-06-27

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Overrides new tab: Yes

Permissions:

storage

Size: 67.04K

Email: su*****@dictanote.co

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 11513 ▼ 27

Other rankings

#6795 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 30

#10 in new tab keyword 46

#16 in new tabs keyword 46 ▲ 4

#17 in customize keyword 13 ▲ 2

#64 in choice keyword 3 ▲ 6

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Summary

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Chrome does not let you customize the new tab page. The new tab page always opens a custom Google Search page, and Chrome extensions do not work on this page.

This extension lets you point the new tab page to a URL of your choice. It can be Google.com, your company's homepage, or a blank page. It is lightweight on your browser (<50kb - compared to, for example, Grammarly, which is 36MB), has no tracking, and is straightforward to use.

Some popular choices:

Google - https://google.com
Voice In Notepad - https://dictanote.co/voicein/notepad/
Bing - https://www.bing.com
ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com
Blank Page - about:blank

You can also set it to a local file path like file:///C:/Documents/test.html . You can set the URL to an internal page like chrome://apps too.

Customization:

Focus on the address bar on the new tab page: When checked, the focus and cursor are in the address bar when you open a new tab page. When unchecked, the focus is on the page.

User reviews

Everything is working fine for external URL's, but when I am trying to serve a local HTML file it says with a warning "If your URL is a local file then you will have to enable the "Allow access to file URLs" permission for this extension:" When I click on the grant Permission button, it takes me to the extension settings, but I dont see any option to grant permissions for the extension. Could you please help me in find that?

Atul Patil, 2024-04-20

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.THANK YOU.THANK YOU. It does work in BRAVE Browser. It does what it's suppose to do. SIMPLE. Normally I don't do 5 Stars. But....meh..