One small thing that I don’t like in Chrome is the inability to set a ‘New Tab’ to a blank page. I want something ridiculously simple. The existing new tab extensions were all more than I needed.
It turns out that overriding new tab via an extension is really easy. So I wrote one: Chrome: Intentionally Blank Tab.
A dozen lines of JSON and a dozen lines of HTML produces the super simple new tab page I was looking for.
The source code is at https://github.com/josephscott/chrome-intentionally-blank-tab.
2 replies on “Chrome: Intentionally Blank Tab”
Hello Joseph, nice one, but how to install it? Chrome extension should be packed in file .crx as I know 😛
I’m not submitting it to the Chrome Web Store, so I haven’t worried about distributing a packed version.
To use it as is you’ll need to checkout a copy of the source code from Github, then check “Developer Mode” at chrome://extensions/. You’ll then have an option to “Load unpacked extension”.