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Every so often Google Chrome crashes on me so spectacularly that it loses the profile information. This is everything - initial tabs, sync options, download location etc.

The most annoying thing is the URLs it uses for the 8 most visited sites that get displayed when you open a new tab.

I would like to manually set the first 4 or 5 to the sites I visit but don't leave open all the time. There's no UI for this so were does Chrome store this information so I can edit it by hand?

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Did you get the crashing solved? You did accept an answer on it. – Moab Apr 15 '11 at 23:40
@Moab - I thought I'd solved it but it came back :( When it did come back I'd forgotten that I had accepted the answer and it seems a bit churlish to take it back now. Plus it's a lot less frequent now. – ChrisF Apr 16 '11 at 11:26
I have replaced the "Most Visited" page with the Speed Dial extension which can be easily customised. Try it, maybe it will suit you. – Jack Shainsky May 5 '11 at 9:17
Used to be there was a "PIN" option which would show up if you hovered over the link image... but that is gone... – aslum Dec 30 '11 at 18:47
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I use the Speed Dial extension.

  • You get a button in your address bar to 'pin' sites to your Speed Dial and rearrange them there.
  • You can set up to 9 x 9 buttons.
  • It gives you the options to add or strip some of the features of Chrome's own new tab page
  • If you really hate the button, you can turn it off after you've set Speed Dial to your liking.

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I can't vouch for whether Chrome will sync what pages you've pinned though and obviously that requires you to login to Chrome

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After looking around a bit, for me (on Mac) Chrome stores the information in /User/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/, in a file called Top Sites. It's probably similar on Windows.

It's in SQLite format 3, so maybe you can edit it that way? I'm not sure.

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In Windows it's C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Top Sites - in fact this does not get cleared when you clear history in chrome://settings/advanced "Clear Browing Data" Be warned. The simple remedy is to close Chrome so that you can delete this file. Then from launching the start menu via the bottom left Windows 7 button on the desktop taskbar, hovering/clicking on the arrow next to the google chrome menu option will no longer display the most visited. – therobyouknow May 20 '11 at 19:37
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