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X New Tab Page(Extension)

Posted: March 20, 2018

The X New Tab Page(Extension) is a dubious browser add-on, which is advertised as a utility that is capable of enhancing your web browsing performance by providing you with access to various new features, entertaining content and other valuable information. While all of this might sound great, there are some questionable things about the X New Tab Page(Extension). For starters, the Chrome Store hosts several add-ons that seem to serve the same purpose but under different names - the X New Tab Page(Extension), X New Tab Page(ShortCut), and X New Tab Page. They all claim to provide the same services, and their descriptions don't state any reason for the varying names. This leads us to believe that the multiple download pages are used as a safety precaution in case one of the add-ons gets taken down from the Chrome Store.

Another fishy thing about the X New Tab Page(Extension) is that it can't be installed without authorizing it to apply changes to Chrome's browser. Thankfully, the changes it is meant to bring are not unsafe, but some users are likely to find them annoying since their concern Chrome's default new tab page. This extension is meant to introduce a 3rd-party website as the new tab page and, naturally, this might be rather annoying since users are usually fond of specific pages.

If you have installed the X New Tab Page(Extension) or any of the extension with similar names and you are not satisfied with the service they provide, then you should remove them immediately to revert the changes they brought. Keep in mind that the removal of these particular add-ons can be completed with the assistance of a credible PC security utility since it specializes in eliminating Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs).

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