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Chrome's Tips and Suggestions goes active on new tab page
A while back, Google introduced several new features to Chrome's new tab page. However, only one of the two new boxes added to the bottom of the page - recent activities - was active. The tips and suggestions area only contained a note: "What will we put here?"
Well, I'm no expert, but tips and suggestions of things to browse seem like a good thing to put in a box like that.
As luck (and common sense) would have it, that's exactly what Google has done. After installing the latest Chromium nightly build the box is now populated with five recommended links. Based on my reading habits, I was offered pieces from sites like Lifehacker, Mashable, Techcrunch, and FFFFOUND!
Unfortunately, right now the tips don't change if you click through and read an item. That's something I'd like to see changed now that the feature has been implemented. I'd also like to be able to refresh the new tab page and load a whole new set of suggestions.
We'll have to wait and see what other changes appear in upcoming builds. As before, you might need to add the --new-new-tab-page switch to your shortcut to see the new version.
Well, I'm no expert, but tips and suggestions of things to browse seem like a good thing to put in a box like that.
As luck (and common sense) would have it, that's exactly what Google has done. After installing the latest Chromium nightly build the box is now populated with five recommended links. Based on my reading habits, I was offered pieces from sites like Lifehacker, Mashable, Techcrunch, and FFFFOUND!
Unfortunately, right now the tips don't change if you click through and read an item. That's something I'd like to see changed now that the feature has been implemented. I'd also like to be able to refresh the new tab page and load a whole new set of suggestions.
We'll have to wait and see what other changes appear in upcoming builds. As before, you might need to add the --new-new-tab-page switch to your shortcut to see the new version.
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sharkbait said 1:14AM on 7-16-2009
I'm using the unofficial Chromium PPA and the official Chrome dev builds for Linux, and both show up without needing --new-new-tab-page. It's a very cool feature and it seems pretty accurate.
Chrome is under constant development and the developers seem to be doing some really cool stuff. Chromium Linux is good enough that it's been my default browser for quite a while. It's waay faster than Firefox.
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Nathan said 3:48AM on 7-16-2009
Firefox still has the upper hand in "new tabs" addons. If were a Google Chrome product manager I would just browse to mozilla's addons section - look in "tabs" and copy the best features straight off the bat. In particular, seems like newtabking has all the handy solutions for a new tab instance; they have recently closed tabs, most used websites, applications and the ability to customize everything.
cheers for the post
- Nathan
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