How to remove the pages you visited in Chrome from the New Tab

Currently, the “New Tab” page of Google Chrome shows what the user usually visits in the browser. This page also reveals the interests that that user has, just at a glance.

It sounds inhibitory. But not only that. That extra content that appears in the New Chrome Tab can cause the browser to delay loading it.

There is a way to remove all that information that appears in that New Tab and that it does not appear again. It is about entering a type of «advanced settings» in Chrome and deactivating some parameters that generate this behavior.

Remove the icons of most visited pages in the New Tab

To permanently deactivate the icons of the pages visited and / or frequently visited in the New Tab, the following two parameters must be disabled in the Google Chrome browser on Android:

Disable “Show popular sites on New Tab page”:

1. Open the following page: chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-popular-sites
2. Touch the small rectangle below to change the settings: instead of “Default”, leave the “Disabled” option selected.
3. Restart the browser with the “Restart” button that will appear automatically after making the previous change.

Desactivar «Show Physical Web pages on the New Tab page»:

You have to do the same as in the previous case. In this case you have to open the following page:
chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-physical-web-page-suggestions
Similarly, the value of “Default” is changed to “Disabled” and the browser is restarted.

The two previous changes prevent those shortcuts to most visited pages from automatically appearing in the New Chrome Tab. The icons that have already been added there previously will have to be removed manually. This is done by holding down each icon, and selecting the “Delete” option. No icon should appear in the New Tab again after using the browser.

Remove content suggestions

Suggestions for articles (“Articles for you”) or pages that appear below can also be removed and will not appear again. These are also based on the websites visited by the user or suggested by Google based on their interests.

Desactivar «Show content snippets on the New Tab page»

The process is similar to what has been done before. In this case you have to open the page chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-snippets
You have to change the value from “Default” to “Disabled” and restart Google Chrome.

Privacy in Chrome

What is visited or searched through Google Chrome can not only be recorded in the New Tab. It can also be saved in the history or in the search suggestions of the browser. All of this can be manually deleted by the user. The other option is to use Chrome’s “Incognito Mode”. Nothing, absolutely nothing is saved in this browser while using this mode.

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