How to Bring Back the old Featured Articles UI in Google Chrome – Guide

After updating to a new version of the Chrome app on one of my Google Android phones, I noticed that the default tab switching page UI (also known as the tab organizer, tab picker, or tab display screen) has changed. When I pressed new tab button on the Chrome toolbar (near the 3-dot menu), Chrome displayed all running tabs in a redrawn layout, as shown in the screenshot below. and can be used to disable the new grid layout and bring back the old classic card layout to the tab switcher screen.

I had no problems with Firefox on Android. When I needed a web browser it worked perfectly. And not using Chrome on Android was a no-brainer for me. For others, this may be less obvious. After all, most of mobile users just want everything to work as expected and don’t bother taking the extra steps to do something as simple as viewing a web page in a phone. In fact, the new grid layout is not new. If you remember, last year we told you how to enable and enable this new grid layout in Chrome app, when it was in development and testing and not available by default for Chrome users.

Google is slowly rolling out a new suggested feeds interface on the server side. So not everyone has seen it yet. But sooner or later, you will get this update. If you don’t like the new suggested article interface, there is a solution to getting the old ones back. And no, we would not downgrade the app to a previous version. The instructions only work on the latest Chrome version 78. So let’s see how to restore the old suggested article interface in Chrome. ..

Context up the flag

To restore the old recommendation articles UI in Chrome, we would need to disable a specific flag. This flag has been around for a while and has been previously activated by enthusiasts to get a glimpse of the bigger reference cards. Now that Google has enabled it for everyone, we can simply disable this flag. This will restore the old recommendation articles UI to Chrome for everyone. Similar to these recommended maps, you can also get selected news through the Google News app. ..

Enable the “Enable experimental web platform features” flag. Now open a website in Chrome and click on the three lines in the top right corner of the browser window. Select “Load unpacked extension…” from the drop-down menu and select the “.crx” file that you downloaded earlier. Chrome will now ask you to confirm that you want to install the extension. Click on “Install.” ..

The Content Suggestions flag on the feed of interest allows you to find articles and other content that may be of interest to you.

Google has already enabled the flag for will, so it will be set to Default.

You can now select “Off” to stop your browser from restarting.

To restart your computer, tap the “Restart” button. ..

Chrome will revert back to its old recommended articles user interface after a browser restart. ..

Final note

Chrome users who want to bring back the old Featured Articles UI will need to follow these steps:

  1. Open Chrome and go to chrome://flags.
  2. Enable “Show advanced settings” by clicking on the three dots in the top right corner of the flag window and selecting “Show advanced settings.”
  3. Under “Web content” select “Featured articles.”
  4. Under “Advanced features,” uncheck the box next to “Enable featured articles.”
  5. Click on the “Save changes” button at the bottom of the window. ..