octuta.blogg.se - How to remove the thumbnails from google chrome

This doesn’t stop the thumbnails appearing when you open new tabs but will only change the page shown on startup. You can control what page is presented when you first start Chrome. Set a new tab pageĪn alternative to adding the extension is to modify the new start page. This is an excellent way to remove those new tab page thumbnails from view.

You won’t see the search box in the center or anything at all so don’t be surprised if you’re presented with a purely blank screen. Using this extension, you should see a blank web page when you open a new tab.

Select Add to Chrome and select Add extension.

Navigate to the Empty New Tab Page extension for Chrome.

It works well and even supports the new Chrome Dark Mode if you use that. The Empty New Tab Page extension for Chrome effectively disables those thumbnails and removes your frequently visited sites from view. There are some workarounds though, which I’ll show you here. There is no setting currently available to stop it from happening. In the current version of Chrome 78, there is no way to disable those new tab thumbnails from within the browser itself. For the record, I arbitrarily picked 'New Tab Redirect!' by James Schubert.First the bad news.

I can only hope that it's been properly vetted. Wouldn't you know it, I found an extension to redirect the new tab page in their App store. But, I bet Opera has its own set of schizophrenic traits. I don't know what progress Mozilla has made on those issues, but I wonder if Opera is any good? I'll have to check if it's available for Linux. I left Firefox a couple of years ago because performance was just horrible and because sandboxing was apparently a totally alien concept to them. The only option now is for those of us savvy enough, (and who can remember to do so), is to either go incognito, Ctrl+Shift+N, full time - a pain - and to manually delete browser history on exit anyway. They seem to forget that people use Chrome at work and something like this could have a serious impact.

I won't say that I was as polite as I am normally. I just sent Google some feedback on this. 115, at least that's the version I'm using on my Linux Mint 16 box, the "Enable Instant Extended API" flag no longer exists.