This is what my Google Chrome looks like when I open up a new tab:
Now, is it possible for me to hide away all the thumbnails when I fire up my "new tab" option ( not when I launch my Google Chrome)?
Taken from the Google Chrome Help Forum:
The only way I know to do this is to go into incognito mode. To do this hold down ctrl+shift+n and this will open a new window in incognito mode.
If you want to run in incognito mode all the time you can append --icognito to your shortcut. So it would look this: "...\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --incognito
Click the drop down arrow & click on the most visited & recently closed options (which would have been selected before). Now you'll have a new tab just like the one you get in an incognito window
You can select to open your home page (which can be about:blank) when you open a new tab. Go to Tools > Options > Basic > Home Page.