Home Button At Top Right

CRX ID
bfejcgpdahgpmgadhgdadfiekmhgnifm
Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Provides a button at the top-right of Chrome that links to any pages.

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Home Button At Top Right
Description from store

This extension provides a button at the top-right of Chrome that links to any pages.

Regarding upgrade: you now have version 1.7 because Chrome requires a manifest change before June 2024. The new system uses different storage, so your homepage url has been deleted. You just need to re-add it (via right-click > options).

Regarding new installs: you have to click the Extensions icon at the top-right of Chrome and pin the new extension in order to see it in your top-bar. Clicking this new home button initially redirects your current tab to Google. Right-click the new home button and choose Options to edit the home-page urls. You can also choose a white icon if you have a dark theme. You can hide the official home button at top left via: Chrome Settings > Appearance > Show home button > Disabled.

This extension only uses the storage permission to remember your settings. This extension never monitors your activity. It only redirects your tabs when requested. The source code is very simple and is posted here https://holtstrom.com/michael/blog/post/412/Home-Button-At-Top-Right-Chrome-Extension.html, so you can inspect it for yourself. Use the "Feedback" button at the top of that article if you want to ask any questions. Be sure to include contact info if you want a reply.

This extension will always be free and will never have ads.

Some people want to link to a local url like "file:///C:/MyFolder/MyFile.html". As described at the above link, Chrome 118 and later removed the ability to redirect to local files. You can enable local navigation for this extension in your windows registry as shown below.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
ExtensionSettings = { "bfejcgpdahgpmgadhgdadfiekmhgnifm": { "file_url_navigation_allowed": true}}

Latest reviews

Tom Stone 2025-06-20

I wish Opera would have this in their ext store. Very useful. use it constantly.

Felina Faerlaingal 2025-06-11

Since a week or so, the button sometimes will not appear where it should when I launch opera gx. Instead my extensions icons are shoved to the side, and there is an empty spot. If I click any of the extension button, the home page button returns, but the bug can happen again.

Michael Wlcek 2025-01-19

Just perfect, no strange permissions needed and easy setup!

Gary Hobbs 2024-11-23

Where is the home button, it disappears right after added???

Chris McGimpsey-Jones 2024-07-03

This is so stupidly simple it's absolutely epic! It's all I needed and is all I got. Thank you so much.

Edgar 2022-09-07

This button works great on my other computers but does not work on my Windows 8.1 Lenevo laptop.

Edgar 2022-09-07

This button works great on my other computers but does not work on my Windows 8.1 Lenevo laptop.

Blake 2020-02-07

Works! I needed a "second" home button for a second frequently used site, and this does the job. Suggestion/Feature request: People have greater confidence in the overall integrity of open source software, and these days github is the most common way to preserve and grant public access to open source projects. Conversely, a portion of people are justifiably wary of closed source browser extensions with sensitive permissions. If this extension were added to github, Its popularity (number of users) and long term stability would likely further increase. The author has stated that the code is short and simple and has posted the code elsewhere (made it sortof open source). For someone familiar with the github platform, adding this extension to github might be an easy beneficial step.

Blake 2020-02-07

Works! I needed a "second" home button for a second frequently used site, and this does the job. Suggestion/Feature request: People have greater confidence in the overall integrity of open source software, and these days github is the most common way to preserve and grant public access to open source projects. Conversely, a portion of people are justifiably wary of closed source browser extensions with sensitive permissions. If this extension were added to github, Its popularity (number of users) and long term stability would likely further increase. The author has stated that the code is short and simple and has posted the code elsewhere (made it sortof open source). For someone familiar with the github platform, adding this extension to github might be an easy beneficial step.

Thomas von der Elbe 2019-01-10

Unfortunately a middle click doesn't work. On the original home button it does work.

Thomas von der Elbe 2019-01-10

Unfortunately a middle click doesn't work. On the original home button it does work.

Anonymous 2018-10-07

As much as I love this app, I am only using the Home Button to launch a new tab by pressing the middle mouse button on it. Well, with this Home Button, nothing happens when doing so.

Shatari Ishatar 2018-08-20

This should be the default.

Shatari Ishatar 2018-08-20

This should be the default.

Rob Damiani 2018-03-04

works great. does exactly as described.

Rob Damiani 2018-03-04

works great. does exactly as described.

xfnw 2018-01-13

What is the point of this? now i have 2 home buttons :)

xfnw 2018-01-13

What is the point of this? now i have 2 home buttons :)

Alex Musician 2017-12-10

Everything's great! Thanks!

Tor Swenson 2017-10-30

thank you for creating this

Tor Swenson 2017-10-30

thank you for creating this

Darren Z 2017-08-17

Ridiculous that we even need an extension like this -- why can't Google simply unlock the left-hand icons and let us put them where we want? -- but this seems to do the job. Set the address to "about:newtab" if you want it to show your most-used sites. A choice of icons would be nice, too, since the default icon all but disappears against a dark theme.

Darren Z 2017-08-17

Ridiculous that we even need an extension like this -- why can't Google simply unlock the left-hand icons and let us put them where we want? -- but this seems to do the job. Set the address to "about:newtab" if you want it to show your most-used sites. A choice of icons would be nice, too, since the default icon all but disappears against a dark theme.

Mariusz B. 2017-06-19

You cannot click this button by the scroll and open new web page. Stupid.

Mariusz B. 2017-06-19

You cannot click this button by the scroll and open new web page. Stupid.

Alen Rissling 2017-04-22

Can we have a choice of icons? Would prefer to have slightly wider icon instead.

Alen Rissling 2017-04-22

Can we have a choice of icons? Would prefer to have slightly wider icon instead.

Alex Wildner 2017-03-05

dont miss it

Alex Wildner 2017-03-05

dont miss it

Initaksa Mag 2016-11-21

★★★★

Anonymous 2016-09-04

Does what it says

Anonymous 2016-09-04

Does what it says

ВАСЯ пупкин 2016-06-03

Добавьте возможность смены фавикона на фавикон сайта и возможность выбора открывать в текущей и в новой вкладке. Спасибо.

Abu Bakar Eusoff 2016-04-24

Perfect for me coz so used to have the home button... Thanks...

Abu Bakar Eusoff 2016-04-24

Perfect for me coz so used to have the home button... Thanks...

Linux Mangaka 2015-12-18

It's nice to have this icon with download icon & decorate it like firefox. But the ram consume is too absurd.

Linux Mangaka 2015-12-18

It's nice to have this icon with download icon & decorate it like firefox. But the ram consume is too absurd.

Anonymous 2015-02-28

Er tut das was er soll. :)

William 2014-02-21

It works- but slowed my ChromeBook down, completely!

William 2014-02-21

It works- but slowed my ChromeBook down, completely!

Aseya Darvishi 2013-04-05

Erg handig.

Statistics

Installs
9,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
Rating
4.31 (52 votes)
Last update
2023-12-17
Version 1.7
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