Google Chrome 29

ic1male · 24 Sep 2013 at 21:39

Eugh. It seems insistent on showing you your previously visited websites whenever you open a new tab now. I've had to use AdBlock to remove that portion of the page as I can't find a way to do it in settings. Except it comes back again for every new tab! AAAGH!

Anyone else know a way to disable it?

Hyburnate · 24 Sep 2013 at 21:41

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Thread.

ic1male · 24 Sep 2013 at 21:43

Thanks but I'll use IE10 if no-one can help.

marc2003 · 24 Sep 2013 at 21:45

i don't use chrome but can't you just configure new tabs to show your homepage?

ic1male · 24 Sep 2013 at 21:50

marc2003 said:
i don't use chrome but can't you just configure new tabs to show your homepage?

I can't find a way to do that but I have found a "flag" to set the new tab behaviour to how it was previously.

chrome://flags and find "enable instant extended API" and set it to disabled.

marc2003 · 24 Sep 2013 at 21:54

if you did want to set a homepage, a quick google found this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-website/dgkogmmlmfijkljjnhalncbabkljhceo

Caged · 24 Sep 2013 at 23:42

Hyburnate said:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Thread.

You're right, that fixes a Chrome problem, what an excellent post.

Using your logic when people say they are having an issue with their PC, posting a link to buy a new one would be a contribution.

chriscubed · 25 Sep 2013 at 10:54

I'm on Chrome 29 and mine shows the Apps screen. If I change it to "Most visited" then that becomes the default.

What do you want to appear on the new tab?

ic1male · 25 Sep 2013 at 11:14

Are you on Version 29.0.1547.76 m ?

this_is_gav · 25 Sep 2013 at 11:48

"Apps" has been added to my bookmarks bar, though that's not much use if you don't use it of course.

It's particularly annoying as I was about to role out Chrome over our network, with the tab apps screen being central to that... I need to have a rethink now.

Hyburnate · 25 Sep 2013 at 11:53

Caged said:
You're right, that fixes a Chrome problem, what an excellent post.

Using your logic when people say they are having an issue with their PC, posting a link to buy a new one would be a contribution.

No however if they have a serious unfixable problem you'd recommend they send it back or get a new one. This is Google the people that decide what they're doing and force it. Chrome has bought a lot of problems lately so it's not a surprise to see that Firefox is back on top. Have you seen a fix in this thread?

opethdisciple · 25 Sep 2013 at 11:55

Hyburnate said:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Thread.

(Firefox lover myself!)

ic1male · 25 Sep 2013 at 12:05

I did post a fix in #5 which puts the browser back to what it was. So I am happy now.

demonix · 25 Sep 2013 at 12:35

The only recent change that annoyed me was the removal of flash support in windows 8 mode.

Sunbed · 25 Sep 2013 at 14:03

Or https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page/dpjamkmjmigaoobjbekmfgabipmfilij

Hyburnate said:
No however if they have a serious unfixable problem you'd recommend they send it back or get a new one. This is Google the people that decide what they're doing and force it. Chrome has bought a lot of problems lately so it's not a surprise to see that Firefox is back on top. Have you seen a fix in this thread?

Except that Firefox isn't back on top at all. And I've seen mutliple worksarounds..?

chriscubed · 25 Sep 2013 at 14:11

ic1male said:
Are you on Version 29.0.1547.76 m ?

Yep, Chrome says:

Version 29.0.1547.76 m

My flag says it's set to "Default" at the moment, with no indication of if Default means Enabled or Disabled. I'd have to restart chrome to test it, and I currently have about 40 tabs open so I'll try it later!

ic1male · 25 Sep 2013 at 14:12

chriscubed said:
Yep, Chrome says:

Version 29.0.1547.76 m

My flag says it's set to "Default" at the moment, with no indication of if Default means Enabled or Disabled. I'd have to restart chrome to test it, and I currently have about 40 tabs open so I'll try it later!

Yes, mine was on Default which otherwise means Enabled. So I disabled it.

Andrew_McP · 1 Oct 2013 at 09:48

This seems like the right thread to ask if anyone else is having problems loading web pages (like this one!) in Chrome at the moment? The browser just hangs there, waiting for a page to open. One minute it works, next it's gone on strike for a bit and I have to swap to Firefox, which works fine while Chrome's still hanging in the background.

It's a bit of a puzzle. Everything's working fine apart from Chrome's erratic behaviour.

ic1male · 1 Oct 2013 at 10:17

It's been doing that ^^ for me for about a month now. Haven't a clue what's going on. The whole computer locks up for me though. Then after about 20 seconds everything carries on as if nothing happened.

Andrew_McP · 1 Oct 2013 at 11:20

Thanks, at least I know I'm not the only one with issues. Chrome's been a bit of a pain recently. Nasty design changes; now this. Time for a holiday in Firefox, I think.