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Google Chrome for Android’s flag lets you customize the new tab page appearance

Normally, Google Chrome on Android only lets you customize your New Tab page with cards and shortcuts that you set, including the “Continue with this tab” card. Recently, we have spotted a new experimental flag that allows you to customize the new tab page appearance with custom colors that you select or a picture on your device. This experimental flag has been spotted on version 143.0.7499.146, called new-tab-page-customization-v2.

You can find the below flag by opening chrome://flags/#new-tab-page-customization-v2 and selecting Enabled Show color picker. After that, restart Chrome using the Relaunch button, and the flag will be enabled.

When you enable this flag, open a new tab, and press the pencil button at the bottom of the screen, or press the hamburger menu and select Customize new tab page. After that, you should see a new entry called Appearance. However, the implementation was clearly not finalized as you can see placeholder icons in the Theme Collections option.

It lets you choose between four options:

• Chrome Default
• Upload an image
• Chrome Colors
• Theme Collections

Let’s try using an image from the device to make it as a background for the New Tab page.

As you can see, the wallpaper has been used. However, there are some refinements that could have been done, such as the shortcuts bar needing some transparency and/or blurring and the large search bar needing to respect the dark mode setting.

Let’s try Chrome Colors.

It basically lets you select either one of the two pre-defined color palettes (blue and grayish blue) or select two custom color hexadecimal representations. One of them is the background color, and the other is the primary color. You can either write it like this: RRGGBB or #RRGGBB. Once done, press Save, and close the page. Chrome should then use the chosen colors, just like below:

For example, if you want to use the custom color hexadecimal values to select any color you want, you’ll have to manually write the hexadecimal representation of the color, since there is no color picker. While a bit unintuitive, we expect improvements to be done in a future Chrome version.

Press Save after you’re done deciding what colors to use for both the background and the primary colors, then close the page.

If the Google Doodle doesn’t load, you’ll get a Google logo that is colored with the primary color you’ve chosen in the New Tab page.

The last option that Chrome allows you to customize the New Tab page with is the Theme Collection. When you go there, it lists all collections that are available on the PC version of Google Chrome, such as various Artists collections, Earth, Solid Colors, and more.

Select a collection, and you’ll get a list of pictures that you can choose. For example, if we’ve chosen Earth, you’ll get this list.

Currently, the Theme Collections doesn’t work, because the New Tab page doesn’t change the background to the selected image, even if the page is closed.

This feature sounds interesting, but is currently under construction, so the finalized version will make it to a future Chrome version. The experimental nature of this rather awesome feature is why it’s hidden under an experimental flag that you can turn on and off.

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