For example, you can place any of the website URL that you wish to open every time you open a new tab, or you can set any chrome flags. Replace New Tab Page is a Google chrome extension to replace new tab page with any other page that you want. This tip was given by Shane Kirk on Google forum. Here is a small workaround to fix this issue. But due to the new update by chrome, we don’t have that option anymore. I’m one of the user who used Instant Extended API Flag to remove that search box from the new tab.