Follow Gregg on Twitter at or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Revamped new tab page the company began rollingout Tuesday. Users who want to restore the previous design should type "chrome://flags" in the omnibox - minus the quotation marks - locate the "Enable Instant Extended API" setting in the long list, and change it from "Enable" to "Disable." Chrome users told Google that they disliked the The most visible that did not was the four-thumbnail view.
Most of those changes, however, were implemented in the final new tab page that began reaching users Tuesday. In April, Google backtracked from a refreshed new tab page that had reduced the number of thumbnails from eight to four, inserted a large Google search box, shifted the Web apps view to a button, and dumped other features, including the ability to view recently closed tabs, from the page. Google has faced resistance from Chrome users before when it's proposed redesigns of the new tab page. Others were dismayed that Google moved the Chrome Apps button - which calls up a display of the browser's installed Web apps - to the bookmark bar. Many commenters dismissed the change as useless, with some asking how to revert to the previous design. The cursor's already by default in the omnibar on opening a new tab." "To use this new search box it takes an extra mouse click to put the cursor into the box. "If you're on Chrome, why wouldn't you just use the omnibar?" asked commenter Neil Slater, using an alternate name for "omnibox," Google's label for the combined search-address bar at the top of the browser window. The page still displays eight thumbnails of the user's most-called-on sites. The feature, which debuted on Opera, has been copied by all its rivals, including Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox, and Apple's Safari.įirefox was the last to acquire a graphical new tab page when in June 2012 Mozilla released Firefox 13.Ĭhrome's new tab page redesign sports a prominent Google search field as the only real difference between it and its predecessor. All browsers offer a similar new tab page that, at a minimum, shows thumbnails of the user's most visited websites. The new tab page appears when users press Ctrl-T (Windows) or Command-T (OS X) in Chrome. you'll also be able to check out current Google Doodles."
"If you use Google as your default search engine, the next time you open a new tab in Chrome the search bar will be front and center. "We're rolling out a feature that can make searching faster and simpler with a streamlined New Tab page," said the Chrome team on its Google+ page Tuesday.
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