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Can you also remove the "most visited site thumbnails" each time I open a new tab ? or at least give an option to disable that? because you removed this option. I know there are Chrome developers lurking here, frankly what does it cost them to re-enable an option to remove these ?

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That behavior annoys me. I use these extensions separately to avoid it:

- Empty New Tab Page, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...

- Google Art Project, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-art-project...

can you not set google as your new tab page?

Nope, you can't AFAIK, there is a very long thread on this issue on Google Q&A site. And the typical answer to that is "why would you want to do that?". "Well because you could before".

There are multiple extensions that let you set your new tab screen to a blank page, or just a list of apps, or whatever you want.

> There are multiple extensions that let you set your new tab screen to a blank page, or just a list of apps, or whatever you want.

You didn't need them before. Most extensions I found were hacks that stopped working after a Chrome update. See nobody answered my question, why was the option removed at first place.

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