1. Disable Thumbnails Google Chrome

Disable automatic thumbnails:. On the, click the search engine you want. Click Look and feel, and then click the Thumbnails tab. Switch Thumbnails in search results to OFF.(Advanced) In some cases, you might want to disable thumbnails only for a specific webpage.

To do this, add an empty thumbnail DataObject to a to the page, like this:

Google Chrome is a powerful browser used as a marketing tool by Google. When you open the browser or open a new tab, by default it will show a page with the title as “New Tab”.

This new tab page shows, links for many Google products like Gmail and list of thumbnails or favicons of the websites you have recently viewed. This thumbnail history may look good option so that you can easily access the pages.

But it will be annoying in many situations like screen sharing or showing your desktop to others. Anyone can clearly see those thumbnails which is a direct intrusion in your privacy. Can I Remove Those Annoying Thumbnails / Favicons?The answer depends on the Chrome version you use. Google updated the Chrome browser on version 69.

Now you will see the circular of recently visited sites on new tab page instead of large rectangle thumbnails. Now that these are called shortcuts which you can remove at your wish and restore them at one click.

Remove Shortcuts from Chrome New Tab PageOnce you have removed the shortcut icon, it will not appear again. This will help you to remove those annoying favicon images from the new tab pages.

However, you need to delete the shortcuts one by one. We don’t see any option to delete all the shortcuts in one click. Restoring Deleted Shortcuts Version 69 or HigherAfter you delete a shortcut, Chrome will offer two options – undo and restore default shortcuts. Undo will only restore the last deleted shortcut while restoring will put back all the annoying favicons. Adding Blank Startup Page in ChromeClose all open windows and reopen Chrome. It will show a blank page as a startup page. But clicking on a new tab will again show the page with Google search and site’s thumbnails from history or add shortcut button.Changing is very useful in Windows in which closing all open browser windows will close the browser.

So when you launch Chrome again, it will show a blank page as startup page. But this will not be much useful on Mac. Because closing all windows will not close the browser. It will be still running on the dock and launching again will open a new page tab with history thumbnails or add shortcut button. Open Completely Blank New Tab Page All VersionsThis is a proper solution to remove all those annoying thumbnails or shortcuts from Google Chrome new tab page completely. But you need to install an extension from Chrome Web Store for that.

Go to the and search for “empty page”. Use filter as “Extensions” to restrict the results to only extension. Final ThoughtModern browsers have lots of features for saving favorites, history to help users to quickly access websites.

Disable Thumbnails Google Chrome

Almost all browsers show thumbnails on the home and new tab pages from history and favorites. Though this is useful, it also affects the privacy. In our opinion, the main purpose of the web browsers is to surf the internet and all other features should be optional with the ability to turn on or off. Fortunately Chrome version 69 or higher offers limited freedom of removing the shortcuts one by one. Unfortunately Chrome version 68 or lower does not allow this while other browsers do. Using third party extensions should help to remove the thumbnails from Chrome new tab page completely. But we strongly believe there should be an option provided for users to enable or disable this feature entirely using default browser’s settings.

I liked the thumbnails because it was convenient to see and re-visit my common sites without having to think, I just look at the pic and I know what site it is. Now I have to think what silly favicon belongs to what site and read the half cut-off text.Unfortunately software developers are not normal people, they have ideas that they think are good and they do it without thinking too much about the rest of the planet of normal people and without any kind of research. It’s just life. Eventually they will figure it out when the product they are working on gets bad reviews and their manager tells them to do the typical backward step to the previous way. It just takes time.