Tag: NEW TAB PAGE

If you guessed the unnamed-but-very-popular feature Opera was planning to overhaul in Opera 11.10 was the Speed Dial, buy yourself a beer! The browser's trademark new tab page has indeed been retooled. In the latest Opera 11.10 snapshot build, there's no limit to the number of Speed Dial entires you can add. Gone are the blank placeholder boxes from previous Opera versions, replaced with only ...

The Chrome Web Store is finally here, and many of you probably have a handful of apps installed -- if for no other reason than a little eye candy on your new tab page. If you'd prefer a way to launch your apps that offers a bit more convenience and customization, check out the AppJump Launcher extension. In addition to adding a handy drop-down panel from which you can launch your Chrome Apps, ...

For quite some time, Chrome displayed your apps -- such as they were -- at the top of its new tab page. One day, however, the section was removed and it's still not visible in the Dev Channel build. Fortunately, a little Canary told me that Apps are on the way back. As you can see, the New Tab Page in Chrome Canary 8.0.550.0 has brought back Apps. The section is collapsed by default so that ...

Internet Explorer 9's new tab page (or about:Tabs) is a handy way to access your most frequently accessed sites. But suppose you'd like to display more than 10 sites -- there's no way to change the number in IE9's options screen! Fortunately, a quick registry edit is all that's required. Thanks to Microsoft's Eric Law, you don't even need to get your hands dirty in regedit. On his recent blog ...