Windows 10: Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome

How to: Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome

How to Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome


This tutorial is no longer valid in the latest Google Chrome.



Google Chrome has a new Material Design refresh UI. This new UI comes with many new changes such as round curved tabs, round edges of address bar, color changes, etc.

The new Material Design refresh UI has also been applied to the New Tab page with round edged search box and small website thumbnails with their favicons. You can also add and customize (edit) shortcuts and change the background on the New Tab page.

*note The new Material Design refresh UI doesn't get applied to the New Tab page if you selected to use the Bing search engine.

If you don't like the Material Design UI on the New Tab page in Chrome, you can set the New Tab Page Material Design UI experimental flag to disable it and restore the classic New Tab page.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the new Material Design UI on the New Tab page in Google Chrome for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10.


EXAMPLE: New Tab Page Material Design UI Enabled and Disabled in Google Chrome








Here's How:

1. Open Google Chrome.

2. Copy and paste the link below into the address bar of Chrome, and press Enter.
*Arrow chrome://flags/#ntp-ui-md
3. Select Default (enabled) or Disabled for what you want in the New Tab Page Material Design UI flag drop down menu. (see screenshot below)

4. Click/tap on the RELAUNCH NOW button at the bottom to apply.






That's it,
Shawn


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Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome  

It is basically working now but there is a weird problem. I've set the new tab page to Google which shows this correctly:



However, when I start Chrome I've set up to go to Google which displays in the old UI style. It also does this when I select Home which is also set to Google. That's what's been confusing me. Is this a bug?

 

Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome  

Because the flag mentioned in this tutorial doesn't affect the tabs, if you want to have the tabs with the previous design you should use this flag:

*Arrow Change Material Design UI Layout for Top of Google Chrome in Windows | Windows 10 Tutorials

 

Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome  

See below the flags I've set and the Chrome page as displayed. I see the old style tabs but not the new style UI.

 

Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome  

Setting the New Tab Page Material Design UI flag back to "Default" should allow it.

 

Enable or Disable New Tab Page Material Design UI in Google Chrome  

I'm kind of experiencing the opposite. When I set New Tab Page Material Design UI to Disabled and relaunch I still have the new UI tabs. *Confused