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#1 2014-02-21 16:07:53
- Rexilion
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Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
We get a Google searchbar shoved down our throat on the upgrade from 32 to 33.
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It's not possible to only delete the logo and the searchbar. In fact, you have to change the entire search engine (including for the omnibox, yawk) to get rid of this. The result is that I can ge the logo and searchbar to disappear, but the quicklink images are still small.
On a Apacer netbook, the 10 quicklink images fall off the screen because of this!
grrr...
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#2 2014-02-21 16:15:12
- karol
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
Is there a question somewhere?
If you just want to grrr, we have a thread for this. Someone already did grrr about the new tab redesign: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1382885
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#3 2014-02-21 16:34:28
- Rexilion
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
Yeah, I want to know how others 'fixed' this. The icons are still small and we have to ditch Google for searching for us 
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#4 2014-02-21 16:35:56
- karol
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
I'm using firefox. vimb looks like a nice browser if you want something really small and light.
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#5 2014-02-21 16:37:09
- korn36
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable- … le-chrome/
IDK if it works, but it should work.
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#6 2014-02-21 17:40:51
- Scimmia
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable- … le-chrome/
IDK if it works, but it should work.
That option is not available on Linux.
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#8 2014-02-21 17:57:06
- Spider.007
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
Are you guys using chrome or chromium. I'm using chromium (33) and I'm not seeing anything...
I experience the same in chromium
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#9 2014-02-21 17:59:09
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
I'm in chromium and am seeing the search on the new tab page.
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#10 2014-02-21 18:28:02
- LucetLux
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
Same here, I really don't understand what they were thinking... I mean, there's the omnibox why the hell would I need a massive search field.
You may not be getting it if you are not using google, this is search service dependent.
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#11 2014-02-21 18:54:41
- Rexilion
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
I changed it to startpage.com. Gone was the bar and the logo. I tried to create a new google service with this url:
https://www.google.nl/search?q=You what hapenned? The old behaviour 'magically' reappeared 
. The bar and the logo returned. I guess some sort of check is applied to see if a Google service is used and then the old 'default' behaviour is restored 
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#12 2014-02-21 23:50:08
- Thorsten Reinbold
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
Yeah, I want to know how others 'fixed' this. The icons are still small and we have to ditch Google for searching for us
Install the "Speeddial 2"-Extension.
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#14 2014-02-22 06:36:53
- the_shiver
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
i use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta … lpiopdcmna for that
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#16 2014-02-22 06:40:45
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
I used to have my apps on the new tab page. Now I have my frequently used tiles there. Has anyone figured out how to change that back to displaying apps?
There's an 'Apps' button right below the address bar that leads to
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#18 2014-02-22 18:59:01
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
If anyone is still looking for an extension that restores the old tab design but does not prefil the URL bar with chrome://apps, try:
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#19 2014-02-22 23:08:36
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Re: Chromium 33 -> New Tab 'redesigned'
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/0 … onger.html writes that https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta … baifinhfip shows apps instead of frequently used urls in the new 'new tab'.
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