{"id":3296,"date":"2014-06-06T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2014-06-06T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T16:08:15","slug":"how-to-change-the-default-page-when-you-open-a-new-tab-in-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/how-to-change-the-default-page-when-you-open-a-new-tab-in-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the default page when you open a new tab in Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Install the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/new-tab-redirect\/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">New Tab Redirect<\/a>&#8221; Chrome extension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/new-tab-redirect\/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-06-at-12.01.51-PM.png?w=640\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-06 at 12.01.51 PM\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evil Chrome developers (or evil product managers forcing good developers) have hidden an old setting that used to be in <a href=\"chrome:\/\/flags\/\" target=\"_blank\">chrome:\/\/flags<\/a>, so now the simplest way to change it is with this extension<\/p>\n<p>Once installed c<a href=\"chrome-extension:\/\/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna\/options.html\" target=\"_blank\">onfigure it to whatever you like<\/a>, if you want it to open a blank page, set the default url to &#8220;about:blank&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"chrome-extension:\/\/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna\/options.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-06-at-12.08.06-PM.png?resize=636%2C630\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-06 at 12.08.06 PM\" width=\"636\" height=\"630\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Install the &#8220;New Tab Redirect&#8221; Chrome extension. Evil Chrome developers (or evil product managers forcing good developers) have hidden an old setting that used to be in chrome:\/\/flags, so now the simplest way to change it is with this extension Once installed configure it to whatever you like, if you want it to open a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,36],"tags":[1278,273,1407,1225,1405,1406],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-howto-2","tag-browsers","tag-chrome","tag-chrome-settings","tag-hack","tag-new-tab","tag-new-tab-url"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-Ra","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":842,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/the-first-multi-process-web-browser\/","url_meta":{"origin":3296,"position":0},"title":"The first multi-process web browser","author":"gubatron","date":"September 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Google today releases a beta of a new multi-process web browser, which makes it look like a mini operating system in itself. 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