

Set a new tab pageĪn alternative to adding the extension is to modify the new start page. This is an excellent way to remove those new tab page thumbnails from view.

You won’t see the search box in the center or anything at all so don’t be surprised if you’re presented with a purely blank screen. Using this extension, you should see a blank web page when you open a new tab.

There are some workarounds though, which I’ll show you here. There is no setting currently available to stop it from happening. In the current version of Chrome 78, there is no way to disable those new tab thumbnails from within the browser itself.
