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New Tab & Toolbox

by MSTECH

v44.6 Updated Feb 14, 2026 124KiB
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4K
Users
★ 3.98
110 reviews
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⚠️Requests 1 sensitive permission

Description

A multi purpose Chrome extension that does all this & more: - Set your Custom "Home Page" under Options, in this extension. - Open that Custom Page in "New Tab" instead of the Home Page. - Toolbar icon for easy access to Downloads, History, Bookmarks. - Automatically force YouTube videos to play at high definition. - Right click on an Image to perform a Reverse Image search. - Right click after selecting a plain text URL to open as link. - Double click on a plain text link to open URL in a new tab. - Click icon (next to Menu) for a Cached version or Translation. - Select some Website text, click Ctrl+Alt (Opt) for Translation. - Ability to change/spoof the browser 'User Agent' when needed. - Right-Click while holding Ctrl+Alt to remove a page element. - History Navigation: Hold Right Mouse button, swipe left/right. - Customize where new tabs open, and tab order when they close. - Basic cookie management allows for export, import and wipes. - Don't forget to check the Help section inside the Options page. Security permissions that should be enabled for all the features: "Allow access to file URLs" is required if opening local files as new tabs. "Allow in private mode" has to be checked in order to work in incognito. "Allow access to search pages" needed for search engine result pages. For Chrome, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and Edge (Chromium) browsers.
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Reviews (22 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-10
Sam -

Doesn't work in Opera, as it seems to suggest

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-08
Jerry1333

Free trial for 7 days, after that PAY. Well bugger off.

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-04
Barry A.

Shady payware doesn't disclose they want money for it.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-20
Coco

Instead of simply asking for a donation it now becomes adware and the creator will now restrict features. How incredibly petty to charge for something that was free for so long and to retroactively ding people who had it for years. Good luck with this bad idea, but I'm looking for an alternative and uninstalling this.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-19
Kevin Grucki

It was free for quite a long while. Now either the user pays or they get bombarded with annoying pop-ups very frequently. I will keep the extension disabled for a bit to see if the maintainers change their mind, and if they do not, I will delete it and forget about it. Do not use this extension until that change is reversed. It was neat but not too much; it's not worth paying anything for, especially when I am asked to do it or get bombarded with a pop-up.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-19
Alexander “Pessimist_Unicorn” Panslev

This has been working flawlessly for the few years i have had it. but out of the blue they have turned it into what i would call addware. Every hour or so pops up a new window asking me to buy a subscription or lifetime whatever. Will never be downloading this again. While i may have considered donating somewhere down the line if the option was presented better, This feels more like harassment than anything else...

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-19
Rob

For years an excellent extension, but suddenly a bombardment of popups asking me to buy. Pity...., will uninstall.....

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-19
Bruno Barbeiro

Popups evey few minutes what the hell

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-19
Chuck Colsch

Most of the time it seems to work. But Now, you ALSO have to get used to the author's BARRAGE of advertising!! YIKES!! — Interesting Strategy: IF you just Love being Pestered!!

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-19
Tomato

Worked amazingly for years, now takes seconds to load and gives me a popup about every 5 minutes asking me to buy it. NTY. Uninstalled.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-18
Dominic R.

I used to recommend this, but now it give you an annoying popup from time to time. Another case of a developer getting greedy and making a perfectly working tool handicapped. Oh well, there's always alternatives.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-18
Izaias Ignácio

Started an Annoying popup today asking to purchase

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-27
Seth GG

breaks middle clicking to open link in new tab, terrible

★☆☆☆☆2017-11-30
Ivan Llanas

Didn't work for me. I set it up to show a file:/// url but a blank tab is all I got.

★★☆☆☆2025-08-03
Bro Dy

Has been a great extension but the latest update (1 Aug '25) seems to be glitchy and certain webpages don't load correctly. I thought it was a general browser issue but after testing individual extensions, this one is the culprit so now I cannot use it. :(

★★☆☆☆2019-12-03
Artem Yakovlev (GANGST1ER)

It doesn't work in Opera(

★★★☆☆2024-09-17
Lennard Kowalik (Len)

Just tried this app after finding it on the developers website. I am trying to set the default search engine to DuckDuckGo, which is set as the default in my settings. I haven't been able to do that. Otherwise, it looks very impressive.

★★★☆☆2023-09-26
Sergio Lanzone

I liked it much, much more when it didn't require copy & paste permission. I can't read the code but even if it's now harmful, once the permission is granted the developer could always change its behaviour in any future update. What a shame, I found it very useful. Please remove c&p requirement!

★★★☆☆2021-09-21
Deb Prentice

I reset Opera Version:79.0.4143.22, and am trying to get Bing to stick in the extension. No matter what I do, it keeps reverting to chrome-extension://mjfahldkpjhcnfbbmdhpjolcjpcfhcpj/google.html after I hit Save. It was working before! Am I doing something completely stupid? TY!

★★★☆☆2021-07-10
FatheredPuma81

It's not bad, but it's barely an improvement (for specific users that want Google services plastered all over their newtab page) over the default that I'm left wondering why? I mean it doesn't even support "themes" (images) or even different search engines. Was pretty much just looking for a blank newtab page that supported my theme so I didn't have to see that ugly search bar and other icons. Actually that's a lie Microsoft Edge's theme support is really buggy and keeps regressing to having bars on the side of my newtab image which is why I was looking for something else.

★★★☆☆2017-11-09
Brad Murray

Used to work great. Now it just opens a blank page

★★★☆☆2016-10-02
T Pfaff

Really like it, but only problem lies in the fact that if make a new window it falsely activates erasing my current screen and making it the new tab screen. (it makes the new tab screen on my current page rather than the new window I just made especially annoying if watching videos etc.

Permissions (7)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu cookies Can read and modify browser cookies declarativeNetRequest Can block or redirect network requests offscreensearch storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 44.6
Updated Feb 14, 2026
Size 124KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026