Custom New Tab
What is Custom New Tab?
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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 point the new tab to a local file URL too. A local file URL looks like file:///C:/Documents/test.html on Windows file:///Users/anil/test.html on Mac. To get the local file URL of a file on your system, open the file in a new tab in your browser. Then copy the URL shown in the address bar.
You can set the URL to an internal page like chrome://apps too.
User reviews
- Allows customization of the new tab page with any URL.
- Lightweight and easy to use.
- Developer provides responsive support and addresses issues quickly.
- Works well with Brave Browser.
- Users appreciate its functionality compared to similar extensions.
- Difficult to uninstall or change settings before removal.
- Requires giving permission for local file URLs, which is not intuitive.
- Some users experienced issues with permissions and settings.
- Customization options for the new tab page.
- Developer responsiveness and support.
- Difficulties with uninstalling or managing permissions.
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Custom New Tab is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Custom New Tab has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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