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Both in Chrome and Firefox, I always set my new tab page to `about:blank`, or in other words, absolutely nothing. Why? Because the address bar is all I need to get where I'm going. I type faster than I click.

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There's no setting to set the new tab page in Chrome - not even in the policies json.

There is a setting for what the home icon does, and it defaults to new tab...but is settable. Maybe that's what was meant?

Edit: See https://imgur.com/a/wQhvFF9

There is no home icon in Chrome, at least I don't see it. Or is that also some setting?

It's a setting. You can enable the home button and then set it to be a custom address.

The home icon only appears next to the refresh button when you have a "home page" configured. It is separate from the New Tab page.

On Chrome, I had to use an extension that redirects it. It's annoying, and overrides the content of the address bar if you start typing too quickly -- but it's better than ads.

I switched to Firefox earlier this year, but the blatant memory leaks are making me strongly consider switching back to an old version of Chrome (v70 or so), which did not require a monstrous page file to run days or months without crashing.

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