##Get the old UI Design back:
chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md
Set to: **Normal**
##Get the New Tab Thumbnails Back:
chrome://flags/#use-google-local-ntp
Set to: **Enabled**
## If your New Tab Thumbnails turn from square Previews to round Icons:
chrome://flags/#ntp-icons
Set to: **Disabled**
chrome://flags/#ntp-ui-md
Set to: **Disabled**
by request of /u/JackVS1 & others - further steps of *'un-fucking'*, transplated from the comment Thread to the OP:
***
##Fixing Omnibox (aka. Search-/Address-Bar) behavior & look
***
##Less Whitespace in the Suggestions:
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-vertical-margin
Set to: **Disabled**
##Format as 'URL - Website Title' instead of 'Website Title - URL':
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-swap-title-and-url
Set to: **Disabled**
## Show complete URLs including http:// - https:// - www. etc.
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains
Set to: **Disabled**
## Don't want Favicons in the Suggestion Box:
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-show-suggestion-favicons
Set to: **Disabled**
***
Finally, if you're of the Mindset ***'who knows when these flags will be removed?'*** or ***'I'd rather use an old browser, than a shitty looking one!'***
Here i present to you the last Chromium 68 build for Windows:
[Chromium v68.0.3440.106 r561733 (stable) Win32](https://github.com/henrypp/chromium/releases/tag/v68.0.3440.106-r561733-win32)
[Chromium v68.0.3440.106 r561733 (stable) Win64](https://github.com/henrypp/chromium/releases/tag/v68.0.3440.106-r561733-win64)
***
##EDIT (2018-12-05):
Google finally did it, they removed the flags from Chrome 71, the old interface is officially dead.
Here, the very last and most up-to-date Version to still include it:
[Chromium v70.0.3538.110-r587811-win32](https://github.com/henrypp/chromium/releases/tag/v70.0.3538.110-r587811-win32)
[Chromium v70.0.3538.110-r587811-win64](https://github.com/henrypp/chromium/releases/tag/v70.0.3538.110-r587811-win64)
Is there a way to get back the old url suggested bar? Like If you type something and it now shows some new suggestions with big icons below the adress bar. It takes almost half my screen now and it is annoying…
This works! Thank you so much!
\>inb4 Google removes the flag in a month
Here, take my upvote! TYSM!
Thank you so much
after a hour of googling this problem , i knew i should have just come to reddit
thank you so mutch
Holy shit, thank you so much!
Honestly, Google goes out of its way to make something user unfriendly. I don’t know who leads their UI efforts on Chrome and Youtube but they need to be fired. In fact that entire team need to be fired.
I’m open to change but not once have I said something they did was better.
You sure are doing God’s work. Thank you.
You’re doin God’s work, thanks.
But yeah Google will remove all of these for sure. Benevolent dictators they are.
Now if only we could have three lines of thumbnails
I love you. Thank you!
It’s nice that this is there but I wish people would stop acting like it’s a definitive solution, because it’s not. It will be removed one or two releases after this one, just like every similar flag in the past.
I fucking love you, the main reasons I keep my old version of chrome are for the old look, and the new tabs page.. when they deleted it last night I was like.. ok, new browser time. Huge help mate, thank you!
Description of NTP flag:
> Use the local New Tab page if Google is the default search engine.
what’s the alternative supposed to be? Online New Tab page? It’s just empty…
Anyone know how to change the vertical margin in form fields back? I didn’t find a flag for this.
I swear how did they even think people *wouldn’t* want access to their most visited pages on the home screen?
I can get sometimes the customer doesn’t really know what they want but come the heck on Google this update made the home page useless outside of it’s Search Bar and random suggested search.
I’m a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
– [/r/aoxxtsfw] [PSA: How to un-fuck the Chrome Redesign & missing Thumbnails on the New Tab Page](https://www.reddit.com/r/AoxxtSfw/comments/9fn687/psa_how_to_unfuck_the_chrome_redesign_missing/)
– [/r/chrome] [told you that grey shit was shit: “Honestly, Google goes out of its way to make something user unfriendly. I don’t know who leads their UI efforts on Chrome and Youtube but they need to be fired. In fact that entire team need to be fired.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/9e8g53/told_you_that_grey_shit_was_shit_honestly_google/)
– [/r/chromeos] [PSA: How to un-fuck the Chrome Redesign & missing Thumbnails on the New Tab Page](https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/9dv05b/psa_how_to_unfuck_the_chrome_redesign_missing/)
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And to get the real URL back:
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains
I am using MacOS Sierra with a 2017 15″ Macbook Pro. Two things:
1. Can I get rid of the broken open tab/close tab animations? They’re horrific.
2. Can I get rid of the menu bar animation when I hover my mouse pointer in the top left corner? It’s overdone and I can’t stand it.
Thanks! The new UI sucks. Feels like the new tabs take up more space.
I’m so glad the missing thumbnails isn’t just me! I was so freadked out!
**PSA: Chrome flags are not a hidden options menu. They can, and will disappear once the developers decide they don’t need those options for development purposes anymore.**
Better get used to the new look.
You are a saint
Seriously if it wasn’t for friendly users on Reddit my Youtube/Chrome would both be completely fucked because of their shitty updates
I wish I could upvote this a million times more but FOR FUCKS SAKE I lost all my damn “frequents” and its fucking reduced to icons instead of website previews.
Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
For FUCKs sake.
I hope it’s not too late to ask my question:
My main issue with the redesign is the behaviour of the omnibox when I’m clicking in it to highlight a portion of the URL. The problem is, by default the omnibox now truncates the “https://” portion of the URL, but when I click inside the box, it expands the URL to include that prefix, which ends up shifting away from my cursor the portion I was just about to highlight. Is there any way to fix this behavior?
EDIT: This behavior persists even when reverting chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md back to Normal.
Is there way to disable white screen at startup?
is there a way to restore the old user button instead of the of the new one in the address bar?
My hero!
So, I can’t change any flags. As soon as I relaunch it goes back to default. What must I do?
God I love Reddit. I’ve ever once been to this sub but i just knew the good people of Reddit would have exactly what I needed readily available for me. Thank you, kind Human.
I use chrome/chromium on Linux with a dark theme, its absolutely hideous
https://i.imgur.com/Q40XjZj.png
https://i.imgur.com/ySJUuvB.png
^guess ^its ^finally ^time ^two ^switch ^to ^firefox ^when ^the ^flags ^disappear
thanks!
Anyone know how to make the hitboxes on the tab “close” buttons larger? It’s not specifically a problem with the new version, but a problem they *still* haven’t fixed.
[Here’s what I’m talking about.](https://i.redd.it/b0eh6r8h4hk11.jpg)
Is there a way of getting http or https back in front of a website url?
Hello, thank you so much for this! Does anyone know why my thumbnails looked like usual after I enabled that flag but after a while now look like this?
https://imgur.com/a/IEoVMP5
Found something else not affected by disabling all those flags:
>It is not exactly the same as before. There is now more padding between icons making each one take up a few more pixels. Those pixels start to add up after about 5 or 6 icons. You can overlay a screen shot of the current version with a screen shot of the previous version and see for yourself.
Some GUI engineers just want to see the world annoyed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/9dtpie/am_i_the_only_one_who_doesnt_hate_the_new_design/e5kd89h/
Submit that feedback on this issue people! Let it be known that this is trash and we want our damn features back!
**PRESS ALT+SHIFT+I** (Help -> Report an issue…) and tell them if you hate the new Design. Write them what annoys you and that you are considering leaving for a different Browser. (Worst case they’ll write “Good Riddance” or simply ignore you.
It’s always “md” or “material design”
Like I don’t dislike the look of Material Design, but the way they implement it is almost always dogshit
Is there any news/workarounds on the blurry fonts?
Omg thank you so much for this. That new theme was blindingly bright, the tabs all blended into one and the scroll bar was like three pixels wide. Did they do any testing on that garbage before they forced it out on everyone?
You might want to also generally disable everything new:
chrome://flags/#upcoming-ui-features
* set to `Disabled`
fucking thank you.
The omnibox was fucking killing me. WHY IS 75% OF IT BLANK SPACE?! WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?!
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Thanks much. Came to this subreddit looking for how to restore the Thumbnail thingies back
It seems you need do chrome://flags/#use-google-local-ntp too
if you want square Previews back
Over to Brave for me….
Thanks
Gotta love how they just make these crappy changes with no warning whatsoever and we have to go searching on how to fix their fuckups yet again
Any way to do this on mobile?
Thank you so much, the new tab interface was driving me crazy.
Thank you! I didn’t like that new rounded template. The old one is better.
God damn, people will complain about literally anything.
fuck, it’s a constant battle with these assclowns… thank god for reddit
Website Title -URL or Less Whitespace fuck with FFZ in Twitch
Thank you so much. I hate this new trend in web&application design to add padding and margins everywhere and not present as much information as possible (new tab pages). It’s so annoying to be using 2×27′ and have mini-circles instead of page previews on new tabs.
Why is google fucking over chrome and gmail?
Thank you for this. You have saved my eyes. 12 hours with chrome open on multiple monitors and I have been dying the last few shifts.
it’s honestly shocking how ugly it is :-/
is there anyway to make the words on each tab back to the black color i dont like the white color that they have, the only tab that shows black is the one that you selected.
https://imgur.com/a/h84QVQP like this the other two tabs have the letters as gray or black.
https://imgur.com/palpewp this is the new way thas ugly
Fuck those huge icons that show up in your url box, thank you
OMG I fucking love you. You saved my day from burning cactus that Google tried to shove up my rear with this update.
Google should fire the designer who thought this is more UX than before.
You save my UX!
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for an extremely helpful post. Those new tabs are awful.
For Mac:
If you want to go into borderless full screen mode. You have to press Cmd-Shift-F while in full screen.
The redesign makes the top bar inaccessible in borderless full screen mode though, even if you hover at the top edge.
If you want to be able to access that with a top edge hover, go to chrome://flags/#views-browser-windows and DISABLE IT. It restores the old top bar look though.
I browse on a relatively thin window (helps with multitasking). Since the new update though, the URL bar starting pushing some of my plugin icons off in to the sub-menu, and it’s not letting me shorten it any further. Any way to fix this?
Google make tons of terrible design decisions… Awful
Looks like there is no way to revert back to the “Classic” interface in Chrome 71 🙁
The hideous tabs came back and I don’t see a way to disable them 🙁 But the thumbnails are still square and beautiful– thanks 🙂 Guess I have to get a plug-in for the tab width. Do you have any recommendations?
Doesn’t work anymore. The UI designers on chrome are all rubbish