How beautiful was the panel new board from Google Chrome to Android, where -in addition to the search bar- the beautiful entrances “Bookmarks“ME “Recent files”In summary, a list of pages visited often that could speed up our browsing.
This is the case until Google decides to roll out a rolling update that, to the previously mentioned pages, will replace A list of “suggested items” (de Google, of course) that may be of interest to the user. Ability to discover new content? Probably yes, but a rather annoying addition for those who liked things to stay the same.
An addition that, Fortunately, can be deactivated. In this short guide we will see how to disable suggested sites from the panel “New tab” of Chrome para Android. The procedure is not very complex and does not need special measures, despite this, Google should soon introduce an option to easily disable this behavior.
The change is fully reversible.
Disable Chrome for Android Suggested Sites
We open the browser and we write in the address bar the url address
chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-popular-sites
or go to page
chrome://flags
Y, using internal search, I searched “Show famous sites” (without quotation marks).
Let's do click drop down menu “Predetermined”. and move the check mark to “Disabled“. Let's not restart the browser yet: now type the url in the address bar
chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-snippets
O, alternatively, always using the internal search we look for the input “Show content snippets on new tab page” (without quotation marks). We put the check the option "Off"..
At this point we restart the browser: now we have disabled the sites suggested by the panel “New tab”, that It will be the same as before!
TIP: You can follow this guide even if you haven't received the update yet., so that the panel “new card” do not change.
