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New Tab Redirect 3.0 beta is available to people in this group.

Version 3.0 includes new permissions and a default new tab apps page. This page is the non-redirect option for New Tab Redirect, so it gives you omnibar focus for fast search.

The beta version of the extension should be available here around 12:30am ET 02/29/2014:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bngoklagfmgndhiimncchfbkfdpikepc

To install

go to chrome://extensions and disable the New Tab Redirect version 2.2 you've installed from the web store (you may need to check 'Developer Mode')
install version 3.0 from the link above
to try the new apps page, click on the custom page button labeled "New Tab Redirect Apps" or remove all text from the URL textbox and click save

Please feel free to comment here about things that might make the extension or the new apps page unusable. In the future, bugs should be reported on the github site: https://github.com/jimschubert/NewTab-Redirect

When the beta period is over, I will email everyone that the beta is closed. At that time, you should do the following:

go to chrome://extensions and remove New Tab Redirect 3.0 beta
re-enable New Tab Redirect 2.2 so you can get the 3.0 update from the web store
configure the updated version of New Tab Redirect

The beta is a completely different extension! Any settings you've persisted in version 2.2 won't show in version 3.0. Likewise, display preference you select in version 3.0 won't be persisted when you re-enable 2.2.

A note about settings on the options page versus display settings on the apps page: the options page is for configuring the application to do what it's supposed to (redirect your new tab page to some other page), so sync/welcome/url are the only settings that make sense here. The settings on the new apps page are only for that apps page. I may or may not add different views of this page in the future, if so they'd all have their own settings. These settings will sync by default if you've enabled chrome sync for extensions. There's no way to turn this sync feature off for the extension because I assume that if you've configured your browser to sync all extension data that you want it to do so. The reason the sync feature exists on the options page is because many people have installed New Tab Redirect on multiple machines where they may want one page at home and a different page at work.

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