Great browser, but terrible release update process – Google Chrome Review

When you open up the browser, after it not being up for awhile, it will open a new tab. Want to turn it off, good luck. It won’t be in the settings and they don’t make it clear what is going on. A web search will bring up all kinds of “you may have been hacked”. But, it’s a “feature” that they added. Turn it off by going to chrome://flags and search for “start surface” and disable that. Pretty straight forward, huh? Yeah, I didn’t think so, either. Super disappointing. Most of the iOS browsers have added this “feature” and they were all quickly disabled. But, Chrome didn’t make finding the way to turn the stupid thing off easy. I hope reviews like this remind them that this is a great browser, but a lot of that is because it’s fast and easy to setup to operate as expected. A major and very annoying change, that replicates a spam “new tab” experience from the early browser days…as a feature…that’s not easy to find a way to turn it off? Just feels like a bad idea to me, but I’ll let my rating do the talking.
Review by ograbah on Google Chrome.