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This will prevent chromium from loading the the new tab script and instead have the new tab run a script that tells it to just load the blank page"about:blank".

1. Download Resource Hacker
2. In Resource Hacker, open Iron\iron.dll
3. Go to View - Find text - Search for (without quotes) - "It's important that this be the first script loaded"
4. On the line below where the searched text is found, add the following line:
<script>window.location = 'about:blank';</script>

So before modification it will look like this After modification it will look like this: 5. Click on "Compile Script" and go to File - Save.

Fantastic tip, worked for me. Who needs new tab redirect extensions when this does the job nicely!

Fantastic tip, worked for me. Generally no need for "new tab redirect" extensions as this does the job nicely! Only one downside: when using this method as a generic new tab redirect — as opposed to simply loading a blank page — this does not work for file:/// URLs. Chromium blocks such access (see the F12 Console message).

e.g. this successfully redirects to Google UK: but this does not successfully redirect to the local file, file.txt:

This no longer works in version 31. Is there an alternative?