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If you use Google’s personalized home page, you might notice a new feature that’s been added…”tabs” for organization. How cool! When did this come out, and why haven’t I read about it?
I’ve long resisted the use of an RSS newsreader, and instead I just add RSS feeds to my Google home page, as I wrote about in my original RSS for Rookies article.
This has resulted in a scroll bar appearing, and me having to go a long way to see my entire list of headlines. as a matter of fact, it’s been getting a bit ridiculous…
I can whine no longer, because now my Google home page is a organized as I can make it, with a simple click of “add a tab”.
Kudos to you Google… thanks a lot for the much needed feature!
I too noticed this rocking good feature (tabs in google personalized pages), but only for one day. I organized my stuff, then the tabs all disappeared the next day and I have a flat page of content again. What’s up? Was this a feature they didn’t intend to publish yet? Or have I somehow disabled my beloved tabs 🙁 Did that happen to you too?
Well, after a bit more troubleshooting, I discovered it’s a .COM thing only. i.e.
http://www.google.ca/ig will not show the tabs.
but use http://www.google.com/ig and you WILL see them.
Ahh – too bad for Canada, eh? I’m sure it’s coming soon.
So it WAS in your .ca account, then removed, or no, just in .com?
I cannot tell for sure, but I am pretty confident that it appeared in .ca for only a day, then disappeared again. On the bright side, the .com and .ca variants both share knowledge of the content of my personal page, the only difference is whether it appears tabbed or flattened out. Thus, I have switched my favourites to point explicitly to .com until I notice .ca working again.
I do have to include /ig on the end as well, or else the .com is automagically substituted with .ca, but that might be my own network’s internal behavior?
I believe the /ig is just the paresonalized page.
Interesting, if log out of google, then I go to google.ca, and THEN I sign in, I get no tabs either.
I guess it’s just not fully supported yet at .ca!
Worst feature ever. Please for the love of cake, give us a way to remove this POS. This is one of the few positive reviews I have seen of the Home tab abomination while the majority are negative. No warnings at all and this “feature” was forced on users.
If some like it then great, more power to them. But for google to force this crap on the other 90% of users that hate it is just flat out wrong.
Googles strong points up until now has been that they have kept things simple and easy to use. This “feature” goes against those basic principles.