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

Add this guy to your manifest.json file.

"chrome_url_overrides": {
      "newtab": "index.html"
   }

with index.html being replaced with your page. This will make it so it will show index.html when you open a new tab instead of the default.

I have an extension that basically does the same thing. Here's my manifest.json that you can use as a reference.

{
  "name": "appName",
  "version": "0.1",
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "chrome_url_overrides": {
      "newtab": "index.html"
   },

  "description": "Desc Here",
  "icons": {
    // "128": "icon128.png"
  },
  "content_scripts": [ {
  "css": ["css/styles.css"],
  "js": [ ],
  "matches": [ "*://*/*" ],
  "run_at": "document_start"
  } ],
  "minimum_chrome_version": "18",
  "permissions": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*", "cookies", "tabs", "notifications" ]

}