Tag: NEW-TAB-PAGE

The beta version of Google Chrome always has a few experimental features that are absent from the stable release of the browser. But one thing I really didn't love about Google Chrome Beta when I decided to give it a try a few weeks ago was the updated new tab page. Instead of simply showing a few thumbnails for your most frequently visited pages, Google added a "recent activities section," ...

A while back, Google introduced several new features to Chrome's new tab page. However, only one of the two new boxes added to the bottom of the page - recent activities - was active. The tips and suggestions area only contained a note: "What will we put here?" Well, I'm no expert, but tips and suggestions of things to browse seem like a good thing to put in a box like that. As luck (and common ...

While it's not active in Chrome yet, Google is playing with a new concept for the browser's new tab page in the latest builds of Chromium. 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 ...