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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2017
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OS: Android
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Not possible to disable snippets and popular websites on new tab page

Reported by ziekdo...@gmail.com, Feb 22 2017

Issue description

Device name: BlackBerry Priv

From "Settings > About Chrome"
Application version:58.0.3019.3
Operating system: Android Marshmallow

URLs (if applicable):

Steps to reproduce:
(1) Disable 
#enable-ntp-popular-sites
#enable-ntp-snippets-increased-visibility
(2) Restart app
(3) Open new tab

Expected result:
The popular websites and snippets not showing up.

Actual result:
The popular websites and snippets still showing.



 
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Cc: ntp-dev+bugs@chromium.org
Components: UI>Browser>NewTabPage
Labels: M-58
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 2 by treib@chromium.org, Feb 23 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Available)
Those four tiles do not look like Popular Sites - I expect they're in fact based on that account's browsing history? If so, this is working as expected; there's no supported way for turning those tiles off.

The second flag adjusts the UI for the snippets slightly, but it won't turn them off. There's currently no setting to turn them off completely, but see bug 695129 - it's possible we'll add one.

Comment 3 by ziekdo...@gmail.com, Mar 13 2017

The option to disable the snippets is there on the default Chrome app
flags, but not on the Chrome Dev. Is there a reason for this?

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