The GC team whishes to reduce the amount of options from this screen. Great! I will assume that it's good to put options near what they apply to. 1. Home page. Make a plugin "Google Chrome New Tab". The majority of users will stay with you, but many power users just have to make this work their own way, so make it pluggable and free the innovators. The current home page and New tab screens can both go in t be the built in New tab. To satisfy new users, move those existing settings into a Settings link on the top right of the New tab page. This is how it works on the web in general, and it will be especially familiar to users of some Google services!  2. Movable toolbar items. More on this idea: Addons and toolbar items - mockup. This would allow removing the checkbox Show home page button in the toolbar. 3. Default search. Remove it already? It's available by context-clicking the Omnibar. To make it more prominent, a grayed out link to "Edit search engines..." could show up there inside and to the right when hovering over the Omnibar. 4. Default browser. Control Panels or Program Access and Defaults screens might not be the first place people search for this. But maybe enought people know about that way to this setting? Then it could be enought to educate about this option. As long as the functionality exists in Chrome, even a help page on the web could make a link to, let's say about:Default browser, that would allow changing default browser, as well as informing what effect the setting has. Or to avoid another about-page, some code that calls up the Control Panel page for the current OS. (I suspect that some UX experts, and marketing forces, could whish to keep users away from i.e. "Program access and Defaults", but the current Options screen doesn't cut it!) |
