Compare Chrome extensions: Incognito Homepage vs Pimp your 'New Tab'

Stats Incognito Homepage Incognito Homepage Pimp your 'New Tab' Pimp your 'New Tab'
User count 793 147
Average rating 3.57 4.10
Rating count 14 10
Last updated 2017-08-21 2016-02-24
Size 291.84K 8.12K
Version 0.2.2 1.0.2
Short description
Chrome plugin for setting a homepage for the incognito mode Pimp your 'New Tab' - open any website or URL!
Full summary

This lightweight Chrome extension allows you to specify a homepage for the incognito window, which is not possible with the Chrome browser by default.

Features:

  • Set homepage for the incognito mode.
  • Option to redirect homepage for only the first incognito tab of the window.

The source code for this project is available at: https://github.com/kidoge/incognito-homepage

A super simple extension that allows you to customise your 'New Tab' page by setting it to redirect to a specific URL or website. I created this as the other New Tab redirect extensions all seem to be full of spyware!

View & download the source code: https://github.com/jimmyff/chome-new-tab

Permission explanation: The extension requires the 'Storage' permission to save your desired URL and the 'Tab' permission to change the URL of your 'New Tab' page. I could remove the tab permission and use the 'new tab override' method but if I did it this way, there would be no way to disable the custom page without disabling the whole extension. Also it would not put the cursor in the address bar. When Chrome adds functionality to allow temporary overrides I will change the implementation to support it.

Happy pimpin! ^_^