Just a thought,

It would be more visually appealing if the "Redirecting..." page were to be completely blank for the first five seconds, then show (or fade in, etc.) the Redirecting...<br><em>If your page doesn't load within 5 seconds,<a href="javascript:r()">click here</a></em>.

I've tested NewTab-Redirect with JavaScript disabled in the options to confirm that even though it's disabled for web pages, extensions still have script access.

I unchecked it and saved "do not show welcome screen" but it shows up anyway.

Is there any way to get rid of it....?

Thanks

When i create a new tab the redirect takes a moment, and the location bar is not selected so i can't type a new url directly.
I am running kubuntu and chrome 31

similar to chrome://apps, look into adding this to the custom apps page

Hello,

it seems Tab Redirect is interfering with the "recover" function of chrome.

Whenever Chrome crashes and I restart it the recover button (that would reload all my saved Tabs) shows for half a second. Then Tab Redirect does its job and redirects to the site i set it up to visit, but that makes the "recover" button disappear. This is very annoying. Can you do anything about that?

After an automatic update, New Tab Redirect got disabled because the new version needs more permissions. So I got the warning prompting me to accept the new permissions in order to reenable it.

So far so good, but most of the permissions are totally unnecessary to do what the plugin is supposed to do, which is simply open the home page on every new tab you open. I may understand "access the icons of the websites you visitu" but it shouldn't need to read the browsing history, let alone modify it!! Read and modify your bookmarks?!? Manage your apps, extensions and themes???!!!??

I use this extension only to restore the apps page functionality when I open a new tab. It used to be that upon opening a new tab, the address bar would be highlighted, so that I could still type a search into the address bar. With a recent update, the bar is no longer highlighted, and instead the cursor is put at the end of "chrome://apps/". It's annoying because I have to then highlight the "chrome://apps/" (or hit ctrl+A) and replace it with my search to search anything.
I am on Chrome 34.0.1847.76 beta-m.

I've tested this in Ubuntu 13.10 and OS X. The transitions between 'pages' of the welcome page no longer shift left-to-right correctly and instead overlay all text. This was reported by a user about a month or two ago, but I was unable to reproduce.

It is consistent with version 2.1 on Chrome v30 and v31.

Maybe use an iframe?

It would be great if the about:blank page had nothing in the url.

The idea is to hit command T then just start tying and hit return and have it do the google search.

I think a new tab does that by default, before the extension is applied. But I love your extension because it hides all the garbage google has on the default new tab page.

I'm seeing very similar behaviour to that which smjd99 did in issue #18, though with the additional problem that the extension fails to retain the url entered, despite displaying an "options saved" message.

Strangely, neither of these problems occur with New Tab Redirect Plus (I am well aware that it is out of date and not published by you, hence why I'd rather not use it on a day-to-day basis).

Currently running Chrome version 33.0.1750.117 m

Why are these new ridiculous permissions necessary?
im not the only one as you can see by the reviews since the update:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-redirect/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna/reviews?hl=en

Is there a way to add an option for Recently Closed Tabs to the Apps page that would emulate the old New Tab page?

After a crash of the computer or chrome, when one restarts chrome it normally puts up a dialog line asking if one wants to reopen the windows that were open at the time of the crash. If NewTab-Redirect is enabled, it seems that this dialog line is immediately overwritten with the redirect to the specified target. This is very unfortunate, as the context can be quite hard to re-establish after this (history is only a small help).

So it surely would be nice if NewTab-Redirect could avoid smashing this chrome recovery option (or just cause chrome to go ahead and reopen the windows).

it just says redirecting... in the tab and nothing appears

I received a suggestion today, if anyone else wants to look into that'd be awesome. Not sure when I'd have free time.

I'd love it if there was a way to open the new tab to the page I'm at when I command new tab. -DM

I'm thinking something along the lines of adding the following to redirect.js:

function r(){   
    var _opts =  JSON.parse(window.localStorage.options);   
    var url = _opts.url || "";
    if ( !opts.useUpdate && ((/^http:/i.test(url)) || /^https:/i.test(url))) {
        document.location.href = url;
        return;
    } 
    chrome.tabs.getCurrent(function(t) {        
        var ctrl = ce[$bp]();
        ctrl.r(t.id);
    });
}

Of course, useUpdate would have to be added in options.html/options.js, but updating using tabs.update will inevitably be slower.

On the custom apps page, include folders in the bookmarks bar.

Include multiple levels of nesting folders.

Hi,
Thank you for the great extension. I love it.

I set my new tab url as chrome://apps/ . I think it would be more useful if keyboard focus goes out of URL bar after new tab opens.

I noticed that keyboard focus stays at URL bar when the new URL starts with
chrome://
about:

Masa

The only thing keeping me from using your "Replace New Tab" extension versus others is that with yours, it auto-selects the search bar on the page, but with others, it auto-selects the address bar. I prefer it to auto-select the address bar because often I just type the address into the address bar and it's faster if it is auto-selected because then I can just press Ctrl-A instead of using the mouse.

Could you possibly make this an option? (i.e. to auto-select address bar vs. auto-selecting a search bar on a website)

If it helps at all, here's the page I use to replace the New Tab Page: 43marks.com/derekantrican

I have been using NewTab-Redirect for over a year. As of this morning, when I open a new tab in Chrome (latest version) it is blank. When I try to set a different option, chrome-extension://icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna/options.html never loads. I uninstalled and reinstalled NewTab-Redirect with the same result.

If an input in html is marked as auto focus and the page is opened using New Tab Redirect, the input is not automatically focused.

FAQ - "How do I access this extension? In the top-right of your Google Chrome browser, click the Wrench icon, . . ." My Google Chrome browser (Version 24.0.1312.56 under Mac OS 10.6.8) has no Wrench icon.

This mimics the apps page being opened, which is really great now that Chrome has the maligned 'Faster, simpler search from the New Tab page'. 2 google disappointments in a short time ;\

Would be nice if the url bar is set to empty when we open a tab such as chrome://apps
to speedup searching process.

It can be added as a checkbox option in extension settings.

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Hi, So I've spent the last 40 minutes troubleshooting this in every way I could possibly imagine. i've set my tab url to https://google.ca, but google only opens in new tabs in incognito mode. in regular mode, I still get a random search bar powered by bing, which is a browser annoying enough to make anyone angry in my opinion. any idea what could be causing this?

I installed your extension and changed the new tab URL to google.com, then google.ca, then google.com/ncr. I then uninstalled your extension and cleared all my browsing data. However, when I have the Instant extended API in chrome://flags enabled, opening a new tab always takes me to google.ca. So I reinstalled your extension and tried to change my new tab page to the chrome://newtab favourite you had provided; however, this did not change anything. So I uninstalled your extension again and reinstalled Chrome, and still the same problem. Has what I have done stored google.ca as my default new tab page in google's servers or something? I ask this because I can't really understand how or why after all this my new tab URL is stuck at google.ca when the Instant extended API is enabled. Please help explain. Thanks.

Have been loving this program but suddenly whenever I try to open a new tab, the tab says - redirecting - and I am left hanging. Same thing happens if I have chrome open and try to open another by clicking on the desktop chrome icon. Would love to know how to overcome this so I can continue to use the program. If I disable the program I get the usual chrome tab page with a variety of icons. Thanks in advance for any assistance

Every time I open a new tab in Chrome a strange Bing sponsored site opens. I've tried multiple times to get google to open in the new tab and it's not working. I've even worked with an IT person to help and she wasn't able to fix it.

Small feature request. I set my new tab to the Apps (chrome://apps) With Chrome on OSX, when I open a new tab, the typing indicator is at the end of the URL, so I need to either clear it out or double click the chrome://apps in the address bar to start typing. On Windows, the URL is highlighted when a new tab is opened, so a person can just start typing without any mouse input.

Thanks!

Every time I open chrome, it opens the Welcome page.

Checking the box "Never show this welcome page" does nothing, as the next time I open Chrome, it opens a new tab with the Welcome page, and the box is once again unchecked.

Latest Apps tab is awesome! nice job ;)

however would be nice to ordering elements such as in chrome://apps tab.

thank you

I'd like to request that all text in the url of the omnibar is selected when a new tab is opened. Alternatively, don't give the omnibar text input focus so that when I click in the omnibar all text will be selected (default behaviour of Chrome).

Thank you!

Based on user feedback in the beta version of v3.0, people may want a configurable option to display apps in a grid-like format similar to the original new tab page or current chrome://apps/

This requires writing a pagination directive and either defaulting to the max number of installed apps (unless the option for a per-page display count is set).

This poses a few 'problems' that should be addressed. First, the apps are currently displaying the 128x128 icon display. If a user selects 4-6 apps per page, this may be fine.. but 8-10 or more will cause vertical scroll on most user's displays, defeating the purpose of the left-to-right grid navigation. The scrollable app content with left-right grid pagination is something I've always disliked about Google's implementation of the chrome://apps/ page. Also, should the pagination display auto-resize the icon display similar to chrome://apps/? If so, should icons wrap at smaller resolutions similar to chrome://apps/? The design choice for rollover administration options on apps may need to be reconsidered at smaller resolutions. The implementation in chrome://apps/ uses a context menu, but I've found that many users don't realize that exists and this is the reason for the rollover div.

I have some local URLs (file://) on my bookmarks bar. When in "New Tab Redirect 'Apps' Page", if I click to one of them nothing happens.

I'm using Chromium Version 33.0.1750.152 Ubuntu 12.04 (256984)

I have set my new tab to "chrome://apps". This brings back the old behavior prior to Google releasing the search tab.

However, I'm used to opening up a new tab and immediately executing a search without clearing the URL. With NewTab-Redirect, I have to select all and delete then type a search in the URL bar.

Hi,

after I set the extension to allow in incognito,

it doesn't actually redirect on new incog window or new tab in an incog window

Would it be possible to have a clear URL field option so that when you newtab the URL field is empty (and you can thus search directly without having to clear the URL first if you wish so) ?

There were a lot of complaints about new permissions. Look into making the permissions that aren't needed for basic HTTP redirect optional/runtime-requested.

The problem here would be the workflow of the initial request.

I've just tried the extension and noticed a serious UX issue: whenever I open a new tab, the omnibox contains chrome://apps/ (the URL I selected). In order to navigate to a website, I have to hit additional Ctrl+L to highlight it and type over it.

If it is not possible to make omnibox contents blank, could you at least highlight it so the user can start typing the address right away?

It would be very, very nice if the URL would get focused when the new tab is opened, this way I can type right away an omnibar search (like a google search, for example)

I use NewTab-Redirect to set my own HTML page for new Chrome tabs. I'd love to be able to add links to Chrome's internal pages (chrome://settings, etc.), but it won't work. (Apparently, it's a Chrome security issue.)

If I put those links on my HTML page, is there any way for NewTab-Redirect to recognize and intercept them, and then use the extension's background.html page to complete the link? Ideally, you could have NewTab-Redirect monitor for all the internal pages listed at chrome://about/. If it detects one of those internal page links, NewTab-Redirect would send a request to the background.html page to execute the same link.

I redirect to a custom page I've written (https://github.com/erikdkennedy/new-tab-new-you) and I've noticed recently that my jQuery focus() statement is no longer bringing focus to the text box on my page-- and even more annoyingly, it's not even highlighting the address in the omnibar; it's simply placing focus at the end.

Is this a recent change to Chrome? Are others seeing this too? Or is it something I've done?

Google chrome home button is no longer returning web page to home url. It is opening my redirected location instead. Chrome opens to my preferenced home page okay initially but if I click "home" after browsing a bit I can no longer get home, instead I get my redirect url and it opens on same tab, not a new on.

??? Tks, Willie

I chose apps screen as the new tab, the way Chrome used to be.
But with the most recent update of NewTab, I began to see "chrome://apps/" still remaining in a new tab. This is cumbersome, because now I have to delete it before I can jump to an actual website. Is there a fix?

Based on feedback from the version 3.1 beta, I think a 'Contact' tab/pill should be added to the options page. This would be a place for links to my twitter, Google+ (move up from the footer), GitHub issues, and beta testing. This way things really stand out for users.

The new tab page should be considered something the user wants to sneak view before going somewhere else. It would be very beneficial if the focus of the keyboard remains as much as possible on the URL bar so that the user can quickly enter a new URL. Now the use has to to CMD+T and CMD+L to focus the address bar.

Every time I have installed Chrome on a new computer I have had to reconfigure this extension.

First off thanks for this wonderful extension.

Please read this link and add these api and rules to your extension to make it use less memory, many extensions now use it and the result is that chrome uses much less memory:
Please also, I do not think is possible but i will just ask, can you remove access of the extension to Your tabs and browsing activity?

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/06/22/chrome-extensions-eventually-will-use-less-memory-than-before/

http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/put-your-extensions-on-diet-with-event.html

http://developer.chrome.com/stable/extensions/event_pages.html

Thank you again for this wonderful extension