Summary
One of the features of Chrome is that it displays the most visited in the New tab page. However, what if you don’t really need the most visited sites included at the bottom of Chrome’s New Tab page? Then you may want to hide. This post from MiniTool Solution will tell how to do that.
Are Chrome Most Visited Sites Useful?
Are Chrome most visited sites useful? There is a lot of debate on this topic on the web, and Chrome can avoid this by implementing options that allow disabling these icons. In my daily work, the fact is that I use the most visited sites to quickly access the places I visit often. They are convenient shortcuts.
But sometimes, it’s annoying. For example, I record a video or at any given time I have visited a page many times that I don’t want it to be seen.
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How to Hide Most Visited in the New Tab Page on Google Chrome
Now, I will introduce how to hide most visited in the New tab page.
Method 1: Delete Browser Data
You can delete browser data to hide most visited in the New tab page on Google Chrome. Follow the instructions below.
Step 1: Open the browser’s menu.
Step 2: Then select More Tools and click the Clear browsing data option.
Step 3: Select the Advanced tab in the new window.
Step 4: Click the All time option in the Time range drop-down menu.
Step 5: Check the Browsing history, Download history, Cookies and other site data, and Cached images and files boxes. Then click the Clear data button.
Method 2: Add the Remove Most Visited Pages Extension to Chrome
You can add the Remove Most Visited Pages shortcuts extension to Chrome. The extension actually redirects the New tab page to the Google homepage, which is almost identical to the default New tab page. However, since the page does not support themes, you cannot customize the background of the page.
Step 1: Click Add to Chrome on the Remove Most Visited Pages, then click Add to chrome. Then, there will be a Remove Most Visited Pages icon on the browser’s URL toolbar to highlight that the extension is on.
Step 2: Then you can enter chrome://extensions/ in the URL bar to turn off the extension and click the button at the bottom right of the Remove Most Visited Pages box.
Method 3: Turn off the Top Sites from Site Engagement Setting
The last method to hide most visited in the New tab page is to turn off the Top Sites fom Site Engagement settings. The steps are as follows:
Step 1: Enter Chrome://flags in the URL bar and press the Enter button.
Step 2: Enter Top Sites from Site Engagement in the search flags box at the top of the page.
Note: However, note the Top Sites from Site Engagement option isn’t included in latest version of Google Chrome.
Step 3: Select Disabled on the drop-down menu. Then press the Relaunch Now button to restart Google Chrome.
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Final Words
To sum up, this post provides several useful methods to hide most visited in the New tab page. If you want to do that, you can try the methods mentioned above.
Originally published at https://www.minitool.com on December 2, 2019.
