It’s more akin to settings, history, bookmarks, and other pages that have a close “x” in the top-right corner. Now, it’s an entirely new screen and piece of browser chrome that exists on top of Chrome’s existing layout. Previously, the NTP was just another card alongside websites. If you imagine the tab switcher/grid view as Chrome’s underlying structure, then all open pages fit within it. In removing, Google has fundamentally elevated the New Tab Page (NTP) - ironically - out of being a tab. That is part of my biggest gripe with this redesign. Next to it is your profile image and overflow menu, but there is no tab switcher button (or open page count). The Google logo still appears at the top, but is much smaller and fits in the app bar. The same cannot be said about the redesigned New Tab Page. For example, if you don’t use Tab Groups, most aspects of the mobile browser’s tab grid are unchanged. Original 8/19/21: Usually, new features added to Chrome do not change the fundamental design. It’s not too big a departure and mostly fine as an idea to help people get back to what they’re doing in the browser. The good thing here, compared to before, is that you have quick access to the tab switcher in the top-right corner, and therefore this UI fits in with the rest of Chrome. There’s a “Continue browsing” shortcut and feeds for Discover/Following below.
The company logo is smaller, while the address bar is much higher with a carousel of recently listed sites (as favicons) below. When opening Chrome after some time away from the browser, Google shows a modified version of the New Tag Page. However, it has continued iterating on the flags since then and appears to be introducing one particular element of the revamp.
Update 4/16/22: Google did not widely roll out this redesign last year. Over the past few weeks, however, Chrome for Android has been testing a redesigned New Tab Page that changes quite a few things for the worse, but fortunately you can get back the old version. While Chrome has been visually refreshed over the years, Google has kept the core user experience intact to avoid “ disorienting” users.
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