How to make the new tab yours, what the alternatives really cost, and why Chrome hands your tab to a search engine.
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A new tab page needs one permission. Here is what the others mean, how to read a Chrome Web Store listing, and the red flags worth walking away from.
Ten new tab pages compared on one day: users, ratings, prices, free-tier limits and browsers, with the store listing behind every number.
Chrome has no setting for a custom new tab URL. Here are the four ways that work, with the exact clicks, plus the same steps for Edge and Brave.
Momentum Plus gates soundscapes, Tab Stash and AI. Eight new tab dashboards compared on what each gives you free, with store data checked September 2026.
Chrome's homepage, startup page and new tab page are three separate settings. What each one does, and how start pages, dashboards and minimal pages differ.
Tabliss stopped updating in 2022. Bonjourr is 1.38 MiB and collects nothing. Dashy adds widgets, sound and time of day. A sourced three-way comparison.
Yahoo, Bing or an empty page in your new tab is a changed setting, not a virus. Find what changed, remove it, and stop it coming back.