Google updated its Chrome Dev app for Android this week, and it offers an intriguing glimpse into changes that might soon be coming to Chrome’s new tab page. The cards can be accessed in Chrome Beta but they won’t display bookmarks and the source of the links seems to be unclear. Switch this from default to enabled, relaunch Chrome, and you should see the new Google Now feature. It’s looks now like Google is toying with a New Tab Page powered by Google Now, and you can take a look at it right now in Chrome Dev. Interestingly enough, there are a number of options to be toggled: the user can turn off the feature entirely, or can use it but skip the personalized results and just see general recommendations that are trending at the moment.
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Google Now just hasn’t really lived up to the hype, and while many have high hopes for the new Google Assistant, it’s nice to see Google Now getting a little more proactive and living in a place where we’ll see it on a regular basis.
Sadly, these Google Now new-tab-page options are available only for Android and not Chrome Dev on the desktop. The flag that needs to be activated is called “Show content snippets on the New Tab page”. The new page has a section when you scroll down with recent bookmarks, and below that suggested news stories.
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Google often experiments with new features and designs for its Chrome browser, with many of these unfinished bits showing up in the developer preview version of the browser.
