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4684499 | 6 years ago

> The one thing that is unique about the [New Tab Page] in the new Edge is that it's actually an online website

IIRC Chrome used to use https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab as its ntp.

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londons_explore|6 years ago

But it wasn't privileged. Specifically, it had access to a magic chrome:// URL which allowed listing the most recently used URL's in an opaque way (ie. so that if google went evil, they still couldn't see what your most visited site was or view it's thumbnail, despite it rendering on their webpage).