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Chromium nightly debuts a new 'New Tab' concept for Google Chrome (video)
The number of thumbnails on the page has been reduced to eight and two optional elements have been added. They are the recent activities list, which displays your last three visited pages and downloaded files and suggestions. While it currently reads "What Will We Put Here?" it's safe to assume that this would include recommendations Google makes based on your browsing history.
What's missing? The column that contained recent bookmarks, history search, and recently closed tabs/windows.
Rearranging your thumbnails has also been simplified. You no longer have to enter editing mode, just drag, pin, and remove items to your heart's content. Accidentally delete something? You'll be prompted to undo removals just in case. You can also switch from thumbnail to a two-column list / favicon view.
To try the new page out, you'll need to download the buildbot's latest version of Chromium. Once you've got it installed, add --new-new-tab-page to the target in your shortcut properties. The same switch in the Chrome dev channel build yields a different (and much less pleasant) result: two rows of four thumbnails and a lengthy history list below.
Video after the break!
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Jash Sayani said 11:55AM on 6-23-2009
Impressive!
The re-arrangine of Thumbnails and pinning them is copied from Safari 4 though. But it would be really great to have those features in Chrome.
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Opera had this first. said 12:57PM on 6-23-2009
As my name says, Opera had this first. It's called Speed Dial you should read up on it.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/04/opera-releases-9-2-browser-adds-speed-dial.ars
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Lee Mathews said 12:58PM on 6-23-2009
Not to rain on your parade, but yes, we knew that already.
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Brendan said 4:45PM on 6-23-2009
I honestly don't care who did it first; it's who does it best.
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Ethos said 7:35AM on 6-24-2009
I agree with you. Things like this I don't care who made it first, It's who does it best.
Das said 7:48PM on 6-23-2009
I've never played with these tab features in any browser. I assume they require one to maintain a history, to function correctly?
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Shelly said 12:29PM on 6-24-2009
have the folks at Googleplex looked at the experience from the New tab king Firefox add-on?
I'd advise they take a look at how a new tab should help you get into more than 8 top destinations.
--shelly
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ryaninc said 7:10AM on 6-25-2009
I like it, but I definitely don't want to get rid of the recently closed tabs and windows section. I use that all the time and have come to miss it when I use another browser.
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