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New tab page
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with New tab page, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Loads all browser bookmarks with no way to hide them from the new tab2024-11-26
- Recent bookmarks shown, but no link to all bookmarks appears when none are recent2024-06-30
- Previewed wallpaper can't be selected directly, forcing hunting through pages2022-10-27
- No error message shown when a stock isn't found; it just keeps loading2022-10-27
- Shows a blank page with cookies disabled, gives no clear feedback, and uses heavy CPU2022-10-27
- New tab page is sometimes slow to load or fails to load at all2014-07-02
- Non-technical users get lost after a new tab opens and can't get back2013-09-25