However, it does not affect our editorial integrity. The above article may contain affiliate links which help support Guiding Tech. Tell us if you would like to see similar stuff for Firefox. If you have knowledge about something similar and useful, do let us know in the comments section. These are pretty decent ways to spice up new tab behavior on Chrome. Next, double click on the text and rename your interface. To create a new bar, drag any link to the area and you will find that an additional apps bar appears. For instance I have a Favorite section created for all my bookmarks. Now, if you wish you may add more bars to it and create a map of bookmarks. A user may toggle between them as per requirements. The new tab interface has an Apps bar and a Most Visited bar towards the bottom. You may choose the row-column size, select a theme or background and check/uncheck interface elements.Ĭustomize Chrome’s Original New Tab Interface
There are a couple of options to set on the extension. Choose the option Add Current Page to see its thumbnail appear. The next splash will ask you to define a Title, URL and Logo of which only URL is mandatory.Īlternatively, for any current page you may follow the Speed Dial Icon on towards the end of the address bar. To add a new thumbnail bookmark you may click on any empty dial. At the bottom it has a recently visited bar that stacks recent items. The interface also shows a bookmarks toolbar imitating the default one. It overrides the original tab behavior and allows more than 8 thumbnails. The good thing it brings along is that it lets you map your bookmarks as visual thumbnails. Use Speed Dial 2 instead.) is a bookmarking extension for Chrome. Speed Dial ( UPDATE: This tool is not available anymore.
Install the extension and read our detailed article (shows how to do it on Firefox as well) to learn the use and setup. No issues, there is an extension for Chrome named Replace New Tab Page which can emulate such a behavior for your new tabs. Though there are other options that you can play with, you might just be missing this feature. However, I haven’t come across a similar offering on new tabs. So far all browsers let you customize the homepage to open a specific website when you launch your browser. Let us begin.Ĭool Tip: Did you know that F3 pulls out a beautiful Find Bar on Chrome? It is a quick way to look for some text on a web page. We’ll talk about ways to customize Chrome’s new tab page and also invite opinions from you in the comments to suggest more such methods. This is exactly what we’ll talk about today. But then you might have wished to do more with the new tab.
It has got a sliding interface for apps installed from Chrome store and most visited websites and this does help us enhance browsing experience. I mean, it’s either blank or will have a thumbnail of recently visited sites… but that gets boring after a while. But the default new tab page in all the browsers doesn’t seem to reflect that. Browsers have come a long way and evolved with time to make their interfaces contained, easy to use and have enhanced features.