Journal stoolpigeon's Journal: Chrome New Tab Behavior 4
Opened up Chrome this morning and the page it loads on start is not my apps - which is what I want to see immediately. I had set it to always start with apps. Thought to myself, "Huh, I must have accidentally switched it somehow." and started looking to fix it.
Noticed that there is a new item on my bookmark toolbar that is called apps.
Do a little searching and realize that this is how it works now. I can't change it back through settings - looks like it will take poking around in the guts of chrome or finding an extension that fixes this.
What do I get instead of my apps? 8 thumbnails of my most recently visited sites and a google search text box. Right below my omni bar which I use to search with google. Now I have to add in a click to a little icon up in the corner - it feels and looks very much like using the corners on my wife's new windows 8 machine. Which is pretty funny if you think about it.
On a side note - Windows 8 isn't that bad in my opinion (for windows). My wife really likes it and I think it's pretty easy to use. It still has some annoyances that Windows has always had and maybe a couple new ones, but on the whole I think it's pretty similar to win 7 with some nice additions. Her laptop does not have touch but we haven't found it to be an issue. But I wander.
I guess Google beta tested this new tab behavior and received tons of negative feedback. I found this article saying be glad the new tab changes wont make it out of beta but unfortunately that guy was wrong. I found a google groups thread asking for feedback and it's almost completely against the change - but that apparently didn't outweigh whatever other considerations were pushing for the change.
I don't care if they want to play with the most viewed sites format - but I really don't understand taking away my ability to choose the apps view instead and forcing me to an extra mouse click to get to it. Seems to be the wrong direction.
Enough griping for today - got stuff to do.
Unexpected change sucks (Score:2)
Weird (Score:3)
The 8 "most visited" sites thing is what I've always had as the main page. Except mine only goes up to 7 because I removed junk it was showing, and whatever criteria for showing a site in the last block isn't met by any sites I actually use. Now I'm going to have to restart chrome to see what they did to it...
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May look the same for you then - just with a search bar above the thumb nails.
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Yeah, but my work squirrelmail still isn't showing up in the last box, or pretty much any other site I've been to.