Google Is Giving Discover Even More Visible In Chrome And Some Users Are Not Happy

Start Surface, a Chrome experiment that revamps the new tab page. A version that’s slowly rolling out to users on Chrome 90 right now makes even more room for Discover.

You can try it out by copying and pasting the following URL into Chrome. Select “Single Surface V2 Finale” from the drop-down, then tap the Restart button at the bottom.

chrome://flags/#enable-start-surface

Unlike the current UI, the new layout reduces the Google logo and moves everything upwards. It also limits most visited websites to a scrollable single row of icons, but increases it from eight to twelve tiles.

Start Surface seems to be a blatant attempt by Google to get more of its Discover content in front of our eyes.

Start Surface it’s rolling out to a very limited number of people right now.