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Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page

Posted by timothy on from the put-it-on-my-ta-hey-waittaminute dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On Friday, Chrome 33 was shipped out the everyone on the stable channel. Among other things, it removes the developer flag to disable the "Instant Extended API", which powers an updated New Tab page. The new New Tab page receieved a large amount of backlash from users, particularly due to strange behavior when Google wasn't set as the default search engine. It also moves the apps section to a separate page and puts the button to reopen recently closed tabs in the Chrome menu. With the option to disable this change removed, there has been tremendous backlash on Google Chrome's official forum. The official suggestion from Google as well as OMG! Chrome is to try some New Tab page changing extensions, such as Replace New Tab, Modern New Tab Page, or iChrome."

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  1. Re:Chrome by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whoever thought it was a good design choice, shifting the focus halfway across the screen after the user explicitly put focus on the search box... I sure hope they're no longer working in IT. That was just gross incompetence.

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  2. Re:I guess I'm geezering.. by Fwipp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think "controversial UI" counts as "evil."

  3. Foolish idea by Sable+Drakon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And leave yourself with an increasingly insecure browser thanks to discovered bugs the updates you've blocked fix? No thanks. I'd swap browsers before leaving myself with an out-of-date browser.

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  4. Re:Burning Chrome by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Alienating your users seems to be all the rage lately.

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  5. Re:Burning Chrome by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Alienating your users seems to be all the rage lately.

    It's part of that whole "you're not the customer, you're the product" thing.
    I've never heard a meat-packing plant listen to the feedback from cows, either.

  6. Use Firefox by stooo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    JUF : Just use Firefox

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