1. How To Get Most Visited Sites Back On Google Chrome

One of the most used browsers for its versatility and modernity is Google Chrome which offers us a series of functionalities focused on optimizing the user experience and one of them is the possibility of accessing most visited websites much more quickly using the thumbnails every time we open a new tab in Google Chrome.

By default you will see 8 thumbnails of your most visited websites:

How to Refresh the Thumbnails on Google Chrome’s New Tab Page Matthew Guay @maguay November 8, 2010, 12:00pm EDT Have you ever noticed that the thumbnails for your most visited sites in Chrome aren’t refreshing like they should? If you wish to disable most visited webpages and recent history pages getting displayed every time when you open new tab or new instance of google chrome then there is no simple option available instead you need to change start up page in Google chrome settings. Here is small guide on how to disable most visited and recent history tab.

This can be useful or not, depending on the situation.

The problem is that you cant remove these thumbnails with any Chrome option. So today we will give a series of tips on how to delete these thumbnails from the browser.

Delete One Thumbnail in Chrome

This process is quite simple; you must pass the mouse pointer over the thumbnail to delete and automatically the X icon displays with the caption “Don’t show on this page“:

Once you click on the X icon, at the bottom, you can undo the action.

Delete All Time Browsing History in Chrome

The next alternative is to delete all time browsing history in Google Chrome who also removes the most visited thumbnails.

1. For this, press the following keys Ctrl + Shift + Del
2. Now select the option “All Time” and click on the “Clear data” button:
   

Change New Tab Settings Chrome

Using the above methods, you delete the thumbnail but remains an empty box.

Google Chrome doesn’t allow to remove these empty boxes entirely; the objective is to configure a new blank tab and prevent the display of these boxes.

1. To achieve this, go to the address bar of the browser and execute the following: chrome://settings
2. Go to the section “On startup” and check the box “Open a specific page or a set of pages.”
3. Now, click on “Add a new page” and enter the following: about://blank
   
4. . Click on the “Add” button to complete the action and restart the browser, now you will see a blank page instead of the most visited thumbnails.

How To Get Most Visited Sites Back On Google Chrome

Open New Tab Completely Empty with Extension

This option will use an extension, and every time a page is opened in Google Chrome shows a blank page without the default thumbnails.

1. For this, go to the following website: Empty New Tab Page
2. Click on the “Add to Chrome” button and install the extension:
   
3. Now, every time you open a New Tab, you will see a blank page.

These are the various options available to manage Google Chrome New Tab Page Most Visited Thumbnails.

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The most-visited websites feature on Google Toolbar might be convenient for you while at home, but at work, where numerous colleagues might share the same computers, it's sometimes too revealing. There are ways to either delete your most recently visited sites or to disable the feature completely. How you proceed exactly depends on how you define 'Google Toolbar.' For some, it is the Google add-on for Internet Explorer. For others, though, it's a feature built into the Google Chrome browser.

Internet Explorer

Click the wrench icon on Google Toolbar and navigate to the Search Features section.

Uncheck the 'Store Search History on My Computer' box and click 'Save.'

Click 'Tools' from Internet Explorer's menu bar. Then click 'Delete Browsing History.' Ensure all the boxes related to browsing history are checked, and click 'Delete.'

Google Chrome

Click the three-barred icon next to the browser address bar. Then select 'Settings.'

Click the 'Clear Browsing Data' button to remove all of the sites you've visited, including your most-visited ones.

Google Chrome, Selectively

Identify which of the most-visited sites you want to eliminate from Chrome's 'Most Visited' page.

Click and drag the icon representing that site toward the bottom of your screen. A 'Remove From Chrome' box appears.

Drag the icon to the 'Remove From Chrome' box and release. Repeat for each site you want removed.

Tip

• In either Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, you can choose to browse in private mode, which ensures that your browsing history won't be recorded after you close the browser and thus won't display any sites as 'Most Visited.' Internet Explorer's private browsing feature is called InPrivate and Chrome's is named Incognito.

About the Author

Aaron Charles began writing about 'pragmatic art' in 2006 for an online arts journal based in Minneapolis, Minn. After working for telecom giant Comcast and traveling to Oregon, he's written business and technology articles for both online and print publications, including Salon.com and 'The Portland Upside.'

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