You can set it as the homepage (enableable in Settings). It adds an extra step after opening a new page (either clicking on the home icon or shift-cmd-h) but I prefer that to replacing the default Chrome page (with its Most visited and Recently closed menus).
I'm back to Firefox. I like Chrome, but I get bored of using the same browser for too long ;)
In FF, you can do it with about:config
Just set "browser.newtab.url" to the page mentioned in the original link.