Chrome's new tab page displays whenever you open the browser or open a new tab. Instead of a wasteland of blank space, the new tab screen is a docking station for the sites that you visit the most, with quick links to the Chrome apps you have installed.
You can customize Google Chrome to open any page for the homepage or startup page. These two pages aren’t the same unless you set them to be. Your startup page is the one that shows when you first launch Chrome on your computer. Your homepage is the one you go to when you click Home. If your startup page, homepage, or search engine has suddenly changed, then you may have unwanted software. Learn how to find and remove malware from your computer,.
Set your startup page You can control what page or pages appear when you launch Chrome on your computer. You can tell Chrome to re-open the same pages you were looking at when you quit. On a computer:. On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More Settings. Under 'On startup,' select Continue where you left off.
Your cookies and data are saved, so any websites you were logged into before (like Gmail, for example) will open again. If you don't want to be automatically signed in to these pages, follow the steps below:. On your computer, open Chrome. At the top right, click More Settings. At the bottom, click Advanced. Under 'Privacy and security,' click Content settings.
Click Cookies. Turn on Keep local data only until you quit your browser. On a Chromebook: To reopen your pages when you sign in, press Ctrl + Shift + t.
You can tell Chrome to open to any webpage. On your computer, open Chrome. At the top right, click More Settings.
Under 'On startup,' select Open a specific page or set of pages. Click Add a new page. Enter the web address and click Add. Click Use current pages. To update your pages, to the right of a page, click More Edit or Delete.
Problems with your startup or homepage If you’re on a computer and you're seeing a homepage or startup page that you didn’t set yourself, your computer may have malware. If you're on a Chromebook at work or school, your network administrator can choose your startup page(s) or homepage for you. If so, you won't be able to change them. For more help, ask. Choose your homepage You can control what page appears when you click Home. On your computer, open Chrome. At the top right, click More Settings.
Under 'Appearance,' turn on Show Home button. Below 'Show Home button,' choose to use the New Tab page or a custom page The Home button will appear to the left of your address bar. Learn how to customize Chrome and change your Chrome settings.
Google Chrome users who run the cutting edge versions of the web browser, in particular, have access to new experimental features to customize the browser's New Tab Page in the latest version. The experiments give users options to set a custom background image for the New Tab Page, switch to link icons instead of most visited tiles, and enable Material Design user interface elements on the browser's New Tab Page. Note: Experimental features are not yet ready for prime time. Some will be integrated natively in Google Chrome eventually, others are removed or they stay on the chrome://flags page indefinitely. While the new experiments are available in Chrome Canary already, enabling them does not seem to do anything right now.
It is a bit strange that Google added controls to Chrome Canary before it added the functionality. It is likely, however, that some of the experiments will find their way into Chrome Stable.
Google has been working on a for, and the experimental features fall in line with that. New Chrome New Tab Page options New Tab Page Background Selection Allow selection of a custom background image on the New Tab Page.
– Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS. Load chrome://flags/#ntp-backgrounds in the Chrome address bar. Set the preference to enabled. New Tab Page Custom Link Icons Show custom link icons on the New Tab Page, instead of Most Visited tiles. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS. Load chrome://flags/#ntp-icons in the Chrome address bar.
Set the preference to enabled. New Tab Page Material Design UI Updates the New Tab Page with Material Design elements. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS. Load chrome://flags/#ntp-ui-md in the Chrome address bar.
Set the preference to enabled. I'll update the article when the new functionality is enabled in Chrome. Closing Words It remains to be seen how the experiments will change Chrome's New Tab Page. It is easy enough to imagine a new option on the page to add a custom wallpaper image to it but it is not clear how the Material Design version of the New Tab Page or the new icons options changes it. Several other browsers, for example or Opera, support background images already. Other browsers, for example Firefox or Google Chrome, that may add background images to the New Tab Page of the browser.
Now You: Wallpaper on the New Tab Page, yay or nay?