How to add and edit shortcuts in the New Tab pageīy default, this New Tab page of Chrome will display the sites you visited the most, with the option to add one more shortcut. On smaller screens or when the Chrome window is resized, you'll see fewer shortcuts.

Since icons take up less space than thumbnails, the number of maximum shortcuts here has increased to 10, when using normal, large, screens. Instead of tiles, the shortcuts are still, by default, populated with the most visited sites, but are using favicons now to display these sites. The 'old' look had a maximum of 8 tiles displayed in the New Tab page, using thumbnails for the 'most visited' sites. In this article, we'll talk about each change in the list above. This puts Chrome inline with browsers like Firefox and Vivaldi, which were offering these features for a while now.

Some Chrome flags can control the behavior of the New Tab page. You can change the background of the New Tab page. Shortcuts can be added and edited: name and URL. The maximum number of shortcuts are increased from 8 to 10 (icons take up less real-estate than tiles on the same space). The old 'most visited' tiles are replaced with shortcuts for sites, displayed using icons ( favicons, actually). Here are the main changes I noticed in this new 'material design' layout, with rounded tab corners: The latest 'New Tab' page update made its way into the stable edition of Chrome for Windows, macOS, Linux, Chrome OS.

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