Chrome New Tab Page with Search bar almost makes omnibox redundant. Experimental New Tab Page which Chrome team has been testing since a long time for Windows, Mac and Chromebooks that offers Search bar to search is now the default New Tab Page for Chrome. Google announced on Chrome ‘s Google+Plus page about the roll out. “Speed is one of the core tenets of Chrome, and starting today, we’re rolling out a feature that can make searching faster and simpler with a streamlined New Tab page. ”
Read: Chrome’s New Tab Page with (Google) Search Box is awful and Redundant
When you open new tab with Google set as default search engine, you’ll see Search bar at center with Google logo above it. You can notice 8 thumbnails of most visited sites. You can access Apps from app bookmark on Bookmarks bar and Recent Tabs can be reached from Chrome menu.
Perhaps one another reason to hate New Tab Page, is Google Doodles will also appear on that.
Till now this feature is behind a flag Enable Instant Extended API, at present Google may allow you to disable it, but we doubt that flag won’t last for long.
What’s your take on this? do you hate or welcome this New Tab Page? share your thoughts with us in comments.
I hate the new page it is redundant and abusive.
Why do I need a Google search box in Chrome? You search from the URL line (something I invented around 2000 with QAZ.com.
And yipee I can see doodles.
I feel this is just an abuse of Google’s ownership of Chrome to push more of their stuff down my throat.
Every week Google feels more and more like the new, bad old Microsoft.
A pity.
At present you can disable it by visiting chrome://flags/#enable-instant-extended-api and select disabled, restart the browser.