I mean, its either blank or will have a thumbnail of recently visited sites but that gets boring after a while.

It has got a sliding interface for apps installed from Chrome store and most visited websites and this does help us enhance browsing experience.

Let us begin. Cool Tip: Did you know that F3 pulls out a beautiful Find Bar on Chrome It is a quick way to look for some text on a web page.

Open Specific Website So far all browsers let you customize the homepage to open a specific website when you launch your browser.

However, I havent come across a similar offering on new tabs.

Though there are other options that you can play with, you might just be missing this feature.

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Install the extension and read our detailed article (shows how to do it on Firefox as well) to learn the use and setup.

Create Thumbnail Bookmarks Speed Dial ( UPDATE: This tool is not available anymore.

Use Speed Dial 2 instead.) is a bookmarking extension for Chrome.

The good thing it brings along is that it lets you map your bookmarks as visual thumbnails.

It overrides the original tab behavior and allows more than 8 thumbnails.

The interface also shows a bookmarks toolbar imitating the default one.

At the bottom it has a recently visited bar that stacks recent items.

The next splash will ask you to define a Title, URL and Logo of which only URL is mandatory.

Choose the option Add Current Page to see its thumbnail appear.

You may choose the row-column size, select a theme or background and checkuncheck interface elements.

Now, if you wish you may add more bars to it and create a map of bookmarks.

For instance I have a Favorite section created for all my bookmarks.

Conclusion These are pretty decent ways to spice up new tab behavior on Chrome.

If you have knowledge about something similar and useful, do let us know in the comments section.

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