How to Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome
This tutorial is no longer valid in the latest Google Chrome.
Google Chrome has a new Material Design refresh UI. This new UI comes with many new changes such as round curved tabs, round edges of address bar, color changes, etc.
The new Material Design refresh UI has also been applied to the New Tab page with round edged search box and small website thumbnails with their favicons. You can also add and customize (edit) shortcuts and change the background on the New Tab page.
The new Material Design refresh UI doesn't get applied to the New Tab page if you selected to use the Bing search engine.
If you don't like the Material Design UI on the New Tab page in Chrome, you can set the New Tab Page Material Design UI experimental flag to disable it and restore the classic New Tab page.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the new Material Design UI on the New Tab page in Google Chrome for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10.
EXAMPLE: New Tab Page Material Design UI Enabled and Disabled in Google Chrome
Here's How:
1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Copy and paste the link below into the address bar of Chrome, and press Enter.
chrome://flags/#ntp-ui-md
3. Select Default (enabled) or Disabled for what you want in the New Tab Page Material Design UI flag drop down menu. (see screenshot below)
4. Click/tap on the RELAUNCH NOW button at the bottom to apply.
That's it,
Shawn
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