lesnoreward.blogg.se - Google chrome thumbnails disable

You can control what page is presented when you first start Chrome. Set a new tab pageĪn alternative to adding the extension is to modify the new start page. This is an excellent way to remove those new tab page thumbnails from view. You won’t see the search box in the center or anything at all so don’t be surprised if you’re presented with a purely blank screen.

Using this extension, you should see a blank web page when you open a new tab.

Select Add to Chrome and select Add extension.

Navigate to the Empty New Tab Page extension for Chrome.

It works well and even supports the new Chrome Dark Mode if you use that. The Empty New Tab Page extension for Chrome effectively disables those thumbnails and removes your frequently visited sites from view. There are some workarounds though, which I’ll show you here. There is no setting currently available to stop it from happening. In the current version of Chrome 78, there is no way to disable those new tab thumbnails from within the browser itself. Note that these changes may not squash every video, but it should work on a lot more than webpages than Chrome’s default setting.First the bad news. CNN’s autoplay is notoriously annoying, so we recommend that as a starting point. Go to whatever site you’ve been having issues with and make sure the changes have worked. We’ve chosen Chrome (no autoplay), but you could also name it ‘Chrome disable autoplay’, ‘video blocker Chrome’, or anything else.

Make sure it’s after the quotes and a space, then press “Next”.Ĭall the shortcut whatever works for you, but make sure you can differentiate it from the normal Chrome. Next to the file location under “Type the location of the item”, add the parameter -autoplay-policy=user-required. It should be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe. In the next screen, click the “Browse…” button and find Chrome’s exe. Right-click your desktop and choose “New > Shortcut”. If you have reason to be more aggressive, such as a data cap, there are no Chrome flags autoplay settings anymore, but you can halt them via a desktop shortcut.