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How to make a blank page in Google Chrome at start-up?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 2026156692 views
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Does Google Chrome has anything similar to about:blank page in IE and Firefox? I did not find any suitable page mentioning this? PS: I tried about:blank but it looked like Chrome is trying to load something before showing blank page...

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Summarizing all I've found for the subject, including this thread, the simple, safe and resource-effective way is to create minimal extension (as recommended by author of "New Tab Redirect" here: https://github.com/jimschubert/newtab-redirect/wiki#user-content-save-locally ): Minimal extension Create two text files: manifest.json with contents: newtab.html with contents: Save the files in empty directory, which should not be deleted while this extension in use (eg. directory "Empty new tab page…

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