#GOOGLE CHROME NEW TAB EXTENSION INSTALL#
#GOOGLE CHROME NEW TAB EXTENSION UPDATE#

So if you are annoyed with the Google Chrome new tab feature, then you must try this extension. I also noticed that there is no delay in opening a new tab, which is happened in the previous extension. Once you activate this extension, the default new tab page design will completely remove and replaced with the empty page. There is no option to configure anything. The only thing you need to do is, just download and activate this extension.

What this extension will do is, it completely removes the new tab page design (Google search box with a thumbnail of visited websites) and replaces it with complete blank/empty page. I highly recommend this extension over the above method.

I just came across a new extension called Empty New Tab Page. To display the blank page when you open a new tab, set URL to display:none and save it.

#GOOGLE CHROME NEW TAB EXTENSION UPDATE#

Update 2: As one of our commenter added a new option to display completely blank page with this extension. If you don’t mind about this delay, then you try this tip. This extension replaces Chrome's New Tab page with a minimalist version which shows a blank white page and an imitation of the. Why because every time you open a new tab you’ll see some small delay in loading that tab. Overview A minimalist replacement for Chrome's New Tab page. To be frank, I’m still not happy with the result what I was getting from this workaround tip. Thus you can get rid of that Google search box with thumbnail images on the new tab. For example, place chrome://apps flag to open Google Chrome apps page every time you open a new tab or new window. You can also use Google Chrome flags in that address. Here you can fill any web page that you want to see every time you open a new tab. Once you install, you will get an option to fill a web page.

#GOOGLE CHROME NEW TAB EXTENSION INSTALL#

To remove that Google search box form new tab, first install Replace New Tab Page extension. If you wish to set that to any other domain, then you set that too. In my case, I just set chrome apps flag (chrome://apps) to open chrome apps page in a new tab instead of that Google search box tab. For example, you can place any of the website URL that you wish to open every time you open a new tab, or you can set any chrome flags. Replace New Tab Page is a Google chrome extension to replace new tab page with any other page that you want. This tip was given by Shane Kirk on Google forum. Here is a small workaround to fix this issue. But due to the new update by chrome, we don’t have that option anymore. I’m one of the user who used Instant Extended API Flag to remove that search box from the new tab.

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