avoidz wrote:KWierso wrote:Because it provides a benefit for most people to get to their frequently accessed sites?
I see your point, but wouldn't it better as a speed dial of customizable user-defined bookmarks rather than trawling from the recent history?
You can, but it's not exactly intuitive.
#1. Open all the sites that you want to add to 'New Page'.
#2. Now open a new tab, right click and select 'Open in new window.
#3. Resize windows so that you can see both at the same time.
#4. Drag the urlbar favicon of the site to be bookmarked into the selected position on the New Tab page.
#5. The bookmark seems to get pinned (blue pin) automatically and persists across restarts.
I discovered this by accident and this feature really should have a much better default way of doing this. As I keep almost zero history, this feature was pretty useless to me, as it was.
Incidentally, experience in forums has shown me that ranters rarely let new information stand in the way of a good rant. So for every '
Thanks for the tip, Frank' type post, I'm sure that there will be 10 '
That's all very well, Frank, but why should a user be expected to....' posts.
It is the nature of the world we now live in.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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