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The number of thumbnails on the page has been reduced to eight and two optional elements have been added. They are the recent activities list, which displays your last three visited pages and downloaded files and suggestions. While it currently reads "What Will We Put Here?" it's safe to assume that this would include recommendations Google makes based on your browsing history.
What's missing? The column that contained recent bookmarks, history search, and recently closed tabs/windows.
Rearranging your thumbnails has also been simplified. You no longer have to enter editing mode, just drag, pin, and remove items to your heart's content. Accidentally delete something? You'll be prompted to undo removals just in case. You can also switch from thumbnail to a two-column list / favicon view.
To try the new page out, you'll need to download the buildbot's latest version of Chromium. Once you've got it installed, add --new-new-tab-page to the target in your shortcut properties. The same switch in the Chrome dev channel build yields a different (and much less pleasant) result: two rows of four thumbnails and a lengthy history list below.
Video after the break!
[via Google OS]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsJash SayaniJun 23rd 2009 11:55AM
Impressive!
The re-arrangine of Thumbnails and pinning them is copied from Safari 4 though. But it would be really great to have those features in Chrome.
Opera had this first.Jun 23rd 2009 12:57PM
As my name says, Opera had this first. It's called Speed Dial you should read up on it.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/04/opera-releases-9-2-browser-adds-speed-dial.ars
Lee MathewsJun 23rd 2009 12:58PM
Not to rain on your parade, but yes, we knew that already.
BrendanJun 23rd 2009 4:45PM
I honestly don't care who did it first; it's who does it best.
EthosJun 24th 2009 7:35AM
I agree with you. Things like this I don't care who made it first, It's who does it best.
DasJun 23rd 2009 7:48PM
I've never played with these tab features in any browser. I assume they require one to maintain a history, to function correctly?
ShellyJun 24th 2009 12:29PM
have the folks at Googleplex looked at the experience from the New tab king Firefox add-on?
I'd advise they take a look at how a new tab should help you get into more than 8 top destinations.
--shelly
ryanincJun 25th 2009 7:10AM
I like it, but I definitely don't want to get rid of the recently closed tabs and windows section. I use that all the time and have come to miss it when I use another browser.