{"id":178,"date":"2011-09-07T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/?p=178"},"modified":"2011-10-07T01:39:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T01:39:28","slug":"how-to-customise-new-tab-settings-in-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"How to customise new tabs in Google chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks,<\/p>\n<p>Quite a short one this week. For while it annoyed me that when you opened a\u00a0new\u00a0tab in\u00a0Google\u00a0chrome, you were not able to set it to a page, as you can with your homepage.<\/p>\n<p>After a little searching I came across this:<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Tab Redirect!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna\">https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This extension to chrome allows you to set the page on new tabs, great!<\/p>\n<p>So here is how to install it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the main page (click on the link above)<\/li>\n<li>Click add to chrome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_180\" style=\"width: 984px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/add-the-chrome.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180\" title=\"add the chrome\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/add-the-chrome.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/add-the-chrome.gif 974w, https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/add-the-chrome-300x114.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main page<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>When\u00a0prompted\u00a0click install<\/li>\n<li>This adds the\u00a0extension\u00a0to chrome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">Now all you need to do is edit the options to set the tab to open a specific webpage:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click on the spanner top right in chrome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_182\" style=\"width: 618px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ScreenHunter_04-Sep.-07-02.20.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182\" title=\"ScreenHunter_04 Sep. 07 02.20\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ScreenHunter_04-Sep.-07-02.20.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ScreenHunter_04-Sep.-07-02.20.gif 608w, https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ScreenHunter_04-Sep.-07-02.20-300x221.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to find extensions in google<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Next select tools, and then extentions<\/li>\n<li>Finally select options under <strong>New Tab Redirect!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>You can then type any website you wish to open in the new tab for example www.google.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: small;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 501px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ScreenHunter_05-Sep.-07-02.26.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185\" title=\"ScreenHunter_05 Sep. 07 02.26\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ScreenHunter_05-Sep.-07-02.26.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ScreenHunter_05-Sep.-07-02.26.gif 491w, https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ScreenHunter_05-Sep.-07-02.26-245x300.gif 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">New tab page options<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>After entering the desired webpage, close the tab and the settings are saved<\/li>\n<li>Test it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any issues or for further info go to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jimschubert\/NewTab-Redirect\/wiki\">https:\/\/github.com\/jimschubert\/NewTab-Redirect\/wiki<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope this comes in useful for you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks, Quite a short one this week. For while it annoyed me that when you opened a\u00a0new\u00a0tab in\u00a0Google\u00a0chrome, you were not able to set it to a page, as you can with your homepage. After a little searching I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/?p=178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}