New Tab Replacement Fix w/o Extension

**Zamadatix** · 02-28-2010, 09:51 PM

Well the lack of the ability of chrome to go to something other than the new tab page on load has always annoyed me, so I went to extensions (already annoyed that it wasn't a feature) and tried a few, none could load my local html file!).

To make things more efficient, and work for that matter, I looked at switches.cc and added '-new-tab-page="C:/Documents and Settings/Daniel/Documents/google.htm"'. This worked... however that annoying bookmarks bar was in my way. So I made a new file called g.htm which contain nothing but '<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Daniel/Documents/Google.htm">' and changed my chrome shortcut to say '-new-tab-page="C:/Documents and Settings/Daniel/Documents/g.htm"'. Not only does it not require an extension, but it loads my page!

tl;dr: Make a page that redirects to what you want to replace the new tab page and point to it in your Chrome shortcut with -new-tab-page="file location".

**PAEz** · 03-01-2010, 05:19 AM

Maybe its just in the dev version or something, but you can do this in the options.
Click the wrench and select options
Select the Basics tab (prolly allready selected)
Set On Startup: to Open the homepage
Set Homepage: to Open this page:
put what ever url (including file:\\ urls) in its edit box and your set

**Zamadatix** · 03-01-2010, 08:38 PM

All that does is set the homepage (which was already set), not change the window that appears when you open a new tab.

**mg2** · 03-01-2010, 08:55 PM

you can always host your page somewhere and point to it via extension,
but i know this isn't the point.

**PAEz** · 03-02-2010, 06:41 AM

Sorry I misinterpreted....
Seems googles gone to a bit of hassle in not allowing acesse to your local files (which is understandable from a security stand point) and this stops extensions just pointing to a local file.
I had a look at it and figured a workaround doing something like this.....

Code:

<html><head>
<script>
function getUrl() {
  if (localStorage.customURL)
chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function (tab){
chrome.tabs.update(tab.id,{"url":localStorage.customURL});	
})
  else
    document.write('<meta http-equiv="refresh"content="0;URL=options.html">');
  return null;
}
getUrl();
</script>
</head>
</html>

...they just need to enable tab permissions and use the tab api to get it done.
Ill send that code to the extension I modified and see if theyll include it.
This is the extension I modified....
https://chrome.google.com/extensions...baaelfojkmlkja

Thanks for pointing out the command line way, options are great.

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