Chrome New Tab Page Broken...Only get "chrome-internal://newtab/"

I had the same problem in Google Chrome 33.0.1750.117 Windows.

The problem in my case was the IMDB extension, which I have now deactivated till they fix it.

To figure out which extension is responsible for your cause, follow these steps.

1. Create a new tab page
2. Right click in the empty page --> Inspect element.
3. Click on Resources --> Frames --> (newtab.html) --> Scripts
4. Here you'll see the script files from the extension which causes the trouble.
5. In my example the ID of the extension is: jipolnkooheenpfdecoclcohihplijco.
6. To get the name to the ID just google it. In my case its IMDB, which you can see at the following screenshot:

From Saro Jooren on Google Product Forums 1:

chrome-internal://newtab was a special internal URL used for old versions of the New Tab Page which is no longer supported and has been removed. ( For details see http://crbug.com/327845 - Remove unused kChromeInternalScheme "chrome-internal" )

If you are using this in a bookmark, instead change to: chrome://newtab

If opening a New Tab page gets an error about chrome-internal://newtab, then you have an old New Tab Extension that uses this old URL that no longer works. You can look for updated New Tab Page extensions from the Chrome webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search-extensions/new%20tab%20extensions

Or you can find which of your extensions is causing the problem. Go to chrome://extensions and first disable all your extensions (or disable any extensions you don't recognize) and re-test. Your New Tab page should be fine after that. Then re-enable your extensions one-by-one to see which one was causing that error.

I'm on Windows 7 (also running Chrome 33.0.1750.117m), not OSX, so this may not work for you. But hey, its worth a shot :)

I went into my extensions page and disabled everything there. I then reenabled them all one by one, like you did. The only one that was causing a problem was the one called New Tab Page that's installed by default (I assume when you install Chrome). Disabling that lets me open it up the new tab page, which apparently is back to not displaying apps unless you click the Apps button in the bookmarks bar.

I don't see that button in your address bar, though, so you might try installing the New Tab Redirect! extension (which is NOT causing me any problems), which will allow you to set the Apps page as the new tab page, should you wish. Hope it works!