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Browsers have come a long way and evolved with time to make their interfaces contained, easy to use and have enhanced features. But the default new tab page in all the browsers doesn’t seem to reflect that. I mean, it’s either blank or will have a thumbnail of recently visited sites… but that gets boring after a while.

Speed Dial 2 is another very popular extension that replaces the new tab on Chrome. It brings cool looking visual bookmarks and you can sort your favourites in groups for quick access. Speed dial also includes a side bar, that can be accessed on the right edge and it brings your recently closed tabs along with Chrome apps that you have installed. I got tired of Speed Dial and the Chrome New Tab page, so I made my own. (i.imgur.com) submitted 8 years ago by PurpyPupple. Adobe photoshop elements 9 full version for mac. Is that I never want to move the mouse to click on the appropriate icon once I'm already typing, especially if its a small square button. And you can use a handy link to access your links on any computer.

Take Chrome’s new tab page for instance. It has got a sliding interface for apps installed from Chrome store and most visited websites and this does help us enhance browsing experience. But then you might have wished to do more with the new tab. This is exactly what we’ll talk about today. 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. Let us begin.

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Open Specific Website

So far all browsers let you customize the homepage to open a specific website when you launch your browser. However, I haven’t come across a similar offering on new tabs. Though there are other options that you can play with, you might just be missing this feature.

No issues, there is an extension for Chrome named Replace New Tab Page which can emulate such a behavior for your new tabs. Install the extension and read our detailed article (shows how to do it on Firefox as well) to learn the use and setup.

Create Thumbnail Bookmarks

Speed Dial (UPDATE: This tool is not available anymore. Use Speed Dial 2 instead.) is a bookmarking extension for Chrome. The good thing it brings along is that it lets you map your bookmarks as visual thumbnails. It overrides the original tab behavior and allows more than 8 thumbnails. The interface also shows a bookmarks toolbar imitating the default one. At the bottom it has a recently visited bar that stacks recent items.

To add a new thumbnail bookmark you may click on any empty dial. The next splash will ask you to define a Title, URL and Logo of which only URL is mandatory.

Alternatively, for any current page you may follow the Speed Dial Icon on towards the end of the address bar. Choose the option Add Current Page to see its thumbnail appear.

There are a couple of options to set on the extension. You may choose the row-column size, select a theme or background and check/uncheck interface elements.

Customize Chrome’s Original New Tab Interface

The new tab interface has an Apps bar and a Most Visited bar towards the bottom. A user may toggle between them as per requirements. Now, if you wish you may add more bars to it and create a map of bookmarks. For instance I have a Favorite section created for all my bookmarks.

To create a new bar, drag any link to the area and you will find that an additional apps bar appears. Next, double click on the text and rename your interface.

Conclusion

These are pretty decent ways to spice up new tab behavior on Chrome. If you have knowledge about something similar and useful, do let us know in the comments section. Tell us if you would like to see similar stuff for Firefox.

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