Recently, when we covered some readers mailed me, asking how to open blank tabs for privacy concerns? That is, they wanted to remove or hide most visited or recently closed websites from chrome’s new tab page.Normally, when we open new tab in Google chrome, home page speed dial similar to opera displays most visited sites. Under normal circumstances, this is pretty useful as it provides facility to go to our favorite site with a single click. But sometimes, this is not at all favourable, especially when you want to hide your activities. At office or in home there are some situations when you don’t want to publicly display your recent visits for privacy reasons.Possible solutions for this problem include – using incognito mode or removing website thumbnail from list. But this isn’t permanent solution for this recurring problem.

1. How To Remove Blank Thumbnails On Google Chrome
2. How To Disable Thumbnails From Google Chrome Homepage
3. Disable Chrome Thumbnail Feature

Let’s discuss 2 potential solutions for this: Temporary Hide Frequently Top Visited Web PagesThis one is simple, infact inbuilt in Chrome so you don’t have to download anything. All you need to do is click on Change Page Layout button and uncheck most visited and recently closed sites. Check out below image for instructions.

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How To Remove Blank Thumbnails On Google Chrome

Have you ever noticed that the thumbnails for your most visited sites in Chrome aren’t refreshing like they should? Here’s how you can flush your old icons and get the latest screenshots of your websites in your New Tab page.Many of us use Google Chrome as our default browser, and have come to rely on the new tab page to get us our favorite pages. Unfortunately, we’ve also noticed that Chrome often seems to get stuck on the same thumbnails and doesn’t refresh them as it should. In the screenshot above, you can see how our install of Chrome looked, complete with an old screenshot of Twitter, a Bing picture from months ago, and messed up icons on sites. Reset Your Chrome ThumbnailsTo fix your thumbnails, exit Chrome and then open your Chrome User Data folder. On a Windows PC, enter the following in the address bar in Explorer or in the Run command to open it:%LOCALAPPDATA%GoogleChromeUser DataDefaultOn a Mac, browse to /users/username/library/application support/google/chrome/default, or enter the following in Terminal:/library/application support/google/chrome/defaultAnd in Ubuntu, you should find it at:/home//.config/google-chrome/defaultIn this folder, scroll down to the Thumbnails file, and delete it. On our Windows 7 computer, our Thumbnails file was over 200Mb when we deleted it, which is absurd.Once that’s done, re-open Chrome.

• Second Method. You can click a thumbnail and drag it to a “Remove From Chrome” box that shows up at the bottom right-hand corner of the page when you start dragging the thumbnail towards it. For a few seconds after deleting a thumbnail (with either method) a line will appear at the top left of the most visited page which says, “Thumbnail Removed.
• Yeah, long story short; I hate these things and basically everything about chrome 69 and was wondering how to remove thumbnails. (They even removed my beautiful top bar type in chrome://flags) I haven't found a single way to remove the new Thumbnails and its really getting irritating.

You should notice now that all of your website thumbnails have been replaced with a broken camera image.That doesn’t look better than before, but we can quickly fix it. Simply browse to each of the sites on your new tab page, then close any New Tab tabs and open a new one. You should now see up to date images of your sites. Plus, your Thumbnails file should be much smaller now; it was only a little over 1Mb after getting new shots of our most popular sites.So this is a small tip, but one that made Chrome nicer for us again. Do you have any favorite Chrome tips?

How To Disable Thumbnails From Google Chrome Homepage

Disable Chrome Thumbnail Feature

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