Music New Tab Extension - How to remove

Musicnewtab.com (or Music New Tab) is a browser extension that displays celebrity pictures on your new tab page. Musicnewtab.com is not dangerous, but it does look like a browser hijacker (especially when it redirects search queries to Yahoo). Also, some users might have installed it without meaning to. If that happened to you, you can remove Musicnewtab.com by uninstalling it from your extensions.

About Musicnewtab.com:

Classification	Browser hijacker, potentially unwanted program.
Problems with Musicnewtab.com	It might be installed dishonestly, it promotes a search engine and tracks users’ search data.
How to avoid unwanted browser extensions	Block ads and malicious websites, be careful on pirating sites and other sites.
How to remove Musicnewtab.com	Uninstall Music New Tab and other browser extensions, find and remove malware with antivirus programs (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac).

Is Musicnewtab.com safe?

It’s certainly not dangerous. Musicnewtab.com, or Music New Tab, is just a new tab replacer that gets installed on your browser and puts up pictures of celebrities. It’s not a virus, but it might be called a potentially unwanted program.

New tab replacer

Musicnewtab.com does look a bit like a browser hijacker. It replaces your new tab/home page, promotes a specific search engine on that page (in this case, Yahoo), and logs your browsing data (such as your search queries). It’s a music-themed new tab page extension that makes money when you use promoted search engines (Yahoo).

Musicnewtab.com is better than most hijackers out there because it does allow users to select a different search engine (Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo). It’s also good because it actually delivers some functionality.

The Musicnewtab.com extension, Music New Tab, is very similar to Music Search and Movies Search for Chrome. Can’t say if they’re by the same company, but the websites are very similar and some of the provided contact info is the same. And honestly, Musicnewtab.com is better than those extensions. It’s simpler, it relies less on guessing, and it works better in the end.

Also unlike those other extensions, Musicnewtab.com doesn’t take over the default search engine, so your address bar should still be free.

Unintentional installation

According to one review of the Musicnewtab.com extension, this add-on is promoted on sites like Soap2day by slightly deceptive ads. Ads that make people feel like they have to install the extension before they can go back to browsing the web. Such deceptive ads are very common and they’re responsible for the unintentional installations of many Yahoo redirect hijackers.

With three hundred thousand users and just a couple of reviews, and the handful of reviews complaining about the extension and wanting to remove it, it’s easy to believe that Musicnewtab.com uses some misleading advertising tactics. Recommended Extension and similar ad formats, as well as pop-up ads on pirating websites, are used to pressure people into downloading extensions they don’t want to.

If you have Musicnewtab.com installed but aren’t sure how, that’s what might have happened – you might have encountered a deceptive ad.

If you visit pirating sites (free movie sites), then it’s recommended to use an ad blocker and an anti-malware app that blocks malicious sites. This will help you stay safe on those sites that allow dangerous ads to be displayed as pop-ups (that’s pretty much any site that opens new browser tabs when you click anywhere on the page). Otherwise, the ads could lead you to scam pages or download malware.

How to remove Music New Tab

Removing Musicnewtab.com is very simple – you can uninstall extensions from the extension area in the upper right corner of your browser or from browser settings.

It’s recommended to check all of your extensions and remove or disable those that you don’t need. Only leave those that you installed intentionally and use regularly. Browser extensions are, in general, not good for privacy. Some of them make unhelpful changes to your settings in order to make money – similar to how Musicnewtab.com promotes a search engine. Others might even get hijacked. The fewer you have installed, the safer it is.

You can use an anti-malware program, like Spyhunter for Windows or Combo Cleaner for macOS. They can help you check your device for malicious and potentially unwanted items and remove them.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove browser extensions

TopRemoving Music New Tab Extension from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Music New Tab Extension. Click on the trash bin icon next to Music New Tab Extension or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Music New Tab Extension, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Music New Tab Extension from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Music New Tab Extension. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Music New Tab Extension or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.