Getting 'New Tab' bookmark back in Google Chrome

In the early version of Chrome, it let you bookmark the 'New Tab' page, which I found very useful, since I was using it as my de facto home page.

With more recent versions of Chrome (not sure when, I am currently using 3.0.195.24), they removed that bookmark and disabled most forms of adding it to the bookmark tab. This was fairly irritating, and I would often find myself creating a new tab and closing the old one just to get to the page, which was both several keystrokes (or clicks) and had the unfortunate side effect of closing off any history on that old tab.

I searched around for a way to get it back, but didn't find anything useful, perhaps my terminology was off. In any case, a little guesswork showed that the new tab page is 'chrome://newtab'. You can add this url directly by opening the bookmark manager (right-click on the bookmark bar, go through the wrench/settings menu, or Ctrl-shift-B), adding a new page (right click on most things, or go to Organize>New Page...), and entering in 'chrome://newtab' (no quotes) for the location.

Happy browsing.