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This is also in my start page of chrome. Google's search bar is now also the main thing on my start page. And the thumbnails for my favourite pages are smaller and under it. I hate it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this?

The thing is that this was already there a couple of months ago but it went away only to reappear two days ago.

edit: image of what I'm talking about: http://i.minus.com/ibepLSMwuCsHra.png

edit2: they also somehow managed to use the omni bar for search on google.com, there isn't any search box on the page itself. Which is also highly annoying. What's up with that? http://i.minus.com/iskQdZsxapVei.png

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Weird.

But c'mon... "hate it"? I think you'll get used to it. It's not really a big change in my book.

Well, I hate it :) I mean fine add this, but make the old version available as a config option or something. I really don't need a big google logo and a search bar every time I press cmd+t

It is optional. You can disable it here:

chrome://flags/#enable-instant-extended-api

You can also install another tab page as an extension. eg:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/x-new-tab-page/cbm...

Are you on an experimental version of Chrome? I mean, are you using Chrome, but a variant other than the stable one?

I've sometimes found that they roll out crazy experiments in the non-stable Chrome builds that integrate with crazy features on Google's web sites, such as the "remove the search box from the web page"-feature. I've since come to prefer the stable variant of Chrome :)

I'm on dev. I'll probably switch to stable yeah. But I'm afraid that this sort of things are gonna drip down to the stable eventually :/

Same here. I got off the dev release channel at home after that, and switched to stable at work after they made the new tab page look like the Google homepage. It makes my browser less useful, and I couldn't find a way to disable it!

Disable the extended search API in chrome://flags to turn it off.

Awww man, thank you! That's just what I needed!

What do you want your start page to look like?

You could replace it with this app launcher we built: https://starthq.com/ext

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