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I don’t like that Chrome forces you to install an extension to modify the new tab (to such an extent). With Safari, I have it pointed at a local HTML file. That

• georg-stone 2y ago
  Really? You can do that? How?
  • scary-size 2y ago
    In desktop Safari, open Settings, select General, then enter a "file://..." URL in the "Homepage" text field.
• arp242 2y ago
  For Firefox I have my own little extension that just loads a HTML page with more or less the same as what you're describing. I presume you can also do that with Chrome, but I don't use it so idk. I don't really get why this isn't just a setting, but ah well. There are some extensions that do this out there, but I found all behaved wonky. I'm not sure if they're "doing it wrong" or because I have it easier as I don't need any settings and can just load a static HTML file. I'm not an expert on any of this. For those interested, in manifest.json I have: { "manifest_version": 2, "name": "newtab", "description": "newtab", "version": "0.5", "browser_specific_settings": {"gecko": {"id": "XXX@XXX.XXX"}}, "chrome_url_overrides": {"newtab": "newtab.html"}, "permissions": ["clipboardRead"] } And then in newtab.html you can just put anything. It has the clipboardRead permission for some JS code I have to add a "go" button if the clipboard contains an URL