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Custom New Tab

FeaturedEstablished publisherManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Customize the New Tab URL. Change New Tab to point to any URL or local file you want.

Users
50K
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.2 / 5
+0.04 in 30 days
Ratings
42
+2 in 30 days
Store rank
#3,594
#3,138 among extensions
Version
1.11
updated 11 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years
1,00026K50KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 50,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
22242Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 42 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Custom New Tab

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: 1) Google - https://google.com 2) Voice In Notepad - https://dictanote.co/voicein/notepad/ 3) Bing - https://www.bing.com 4) ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com 5) 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. Customization: 1) 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. If you want to disable the custom new tab extension, you can do so by going to chrome://extensions and disabling this extension.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days0+0.0%+2+0.04
6 months0+0.0%+8−0.13
1 year+30K+150.0%+13−0.19

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Custom New Tab appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
customize#4+1
browser tab#50
new tab#7−1
new tabs#8−1
tab#35+5
choice#36+4
bing#84+10

Version history

9 versions recorded
1.1111 Jul 2026
1.102 Oct 2024
1.93 Jun 2024
1.89 May 2024
1.725 Apr 2024
1.622 Apr 2024
1.58 Apr 2024
1.428 May 2023

Details

Category
Workflow & Planning
First seen
27 Jun 2022
Size
70 KB
Languages
de, en, en-GB, en-US, fil, id, ms, nl
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
dictanote.co
Extension ID
lfjnnkckddkopjfgmbcpdiolnmfobflj

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 1, likelihood 1
Permissions
storage

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