This is what the Google Chrome mobile homepage may look like soon

August 1, 2021 Bary Howards

Wherever it goes, Google has been trying to fill its Discover channel in recent months. Module with the latest or most interesting articlesthat might or should be of interest to users can be found in several applications. Of course in the main search, but also in many others. These include Google Chrome, where space for Discover provides a main tab for opening new pages. And it seems that this news channel will increasingly oppress other elements.

Previously considered change (older older card on the left, newer on the right)

For some users it will be a pleasant change, for others it will be an annoying thing. From the current A / B testing of new features and skins, it appears that Google intends to shrink the recommended menu of sites (icons) for opening in Chrome, which has Give way to thumbnails for more articles. An earlier test limited the icons to a bar of ten items in which to scroll horizontally. The newer change already removes these shortcuts almost completely.

If you are not sure which card is in question, then this is the basic menu that appears when you click the New tab button. At this point, you should be offered eight icons in two lines. Recent considerations indicate that representatives will not be seen at all at first (they will be completely replaced by the Discover channel and its articles) and will only appear in one line after clicking in the search box.