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
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:50,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 3 years
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
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Ratings
Rating
7 days
0
+0.0%
0
0.00
30 days
0
+0.0%
+2
+0.04
6 months
0
+0.0%
+8
−0.13
1 year
+30K
+150.0%
+13
−0.19
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Where Custom New Tab appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change