I don’t like the behavior of the new tab page in Google Chrome 29+. How can I restore the old behavior?
The new tab page (if you have Google set as the default search engine) now shows the Google logo (or, apparently, the doodle of the day if there is one), a search box, and a few recently visited websites. It also added an Apps button to my favorites bar, seemingly the only way to access my apps page, which has easy access to things I use regularly (Calendar, Gmail, Docs, G+, Facebook, Feedly, Google News, Netflix, Play Music, Pandora, Drive, Keep, etc.) I don’t like this behavior. I actually don’t mind having the logo of the day and search box, but I want my apps linked to on my new tab page.
Is there any way to get the old behavior back? I checked the settings and it doesn’t seem like it’s possible to set chrome://apps
to be the new tab page (which would restore the old behavior) or to configure the new new tab page to display apps instead of recently visited sites.