Chrome extension to redirect tab to my page

Question

I am new to chrome extensions and I am having trouble while writing my first extension for chrome. What I am trying to do is detect the new tab action and redirect to a pre-

Answer 1

If you want to over ride a default page, you shoud use html file, not a js file. And if you just want to over ride a page, you do not need any background page or content script. Here is the sample code:

menifest.json:

{
    "name": "Tabber",
    "manifest_version" : 2,
    "version": "1.0",
    "description": "MyExtension",
    "chrome_url_overrides": {
        "newtab": "my.html"
    },
    "permissions": [
        "tabs"
    ]
}

my.html:

code.js:

window.open("http://www.google.com", "_self");

Note: you can not write any js in your html file. You need to include js file in html file.

And, you even do not need any js file. just modify the my.html as this: