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Delete Frequently Visited Sites

Reorganize thumbnails and delete sites from the Most Visited page in Google Chrome. The browser tracks all recently visited sites, so when you delete a site thumbnail from the Most Visited page, a new frequently visited site immediately replaces the deleted site. You cannot increase the number of thumbnails or manually edit the sites displayed on the Most Visited page.

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  1. Learn how to delete frequently visited sites from your iPhone in iOS 9. For more iOS tips and tricks be sure to check out theapptimes.com.
  2. Hello, I wanted to know if there is anyway to delete the most visited sites,in the Bookmarks Toolbar? Don't see much use in clearing recent history if someone can come behind me and click on the most visited sites in the bookmarks toolbar. Iam using firefox v 9.0.1 on ubuntu.Any help & advice will be greatly appreciated.Regards.

Step 1

Open Chrome and then click the “New Tab” option on the top toolbar to open a New Tab page.

Step 2

Click the “Most Visited” link in the bottom right corner of the browser window to open the Most Visited page.

Step 3

Hover your mouse over the thumbnail to delete. The “X” appears on the thumbnail.

Click the “X” to delete the thumbnail from the page. The thumbnail is removed and the next most frequently visited site thumbnail appears in place of the deleted thumbnail. Continue this process until the only thumbnails left are those you want.

Tip

  • Drag and drop thumbnails in the Most Visited page to reorganize sites, as desired.

Warning

  • Google has removed the feature from Chrome that enables you to permanently save a site in the Most Visited page by “pinning” the site. Now, the Most Visited page is truly dynamic, displaying only the sites you have visited the most in the browser.

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By default, Microsoft Edge displays a list of top sites at the top of new tab page unless you have customized Edge’s new tab page to show a blank page or display only suggested contents.

Top sites are nothing but your frequently visited websites. By clicking on a website’s tile in the top sites section, you can open the website. The top site’s section allows you to open your favorite websites quickly without having to type URLs in the address bar.

You can remove a website from the top sites section by right-clicking on it and then clicking Remove option, or by clicking the close sign on the tile.

Microsoft Edge automatically adds websites to top sites section of new tab page based on your browsing history. If it finds that you are visiting a website more often than a website that is already in the top sites section, it automatically replaces the least visited site in the top sites section with the new one.

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Edge also allows you pin a website to the top sites section of the new tab. When you pin a website to the top sites section, Edge will not automatically remove it, even if you don’t visit that website very often in future.

Now, you might be wondering how to add websites to top sites section in Edge. Well, there is a provision to add websites to top sites in Edge. Here is how to do that.

Add websites to top sites in Edge in Windows 10

Step 1: Start the Edge browser. Open a new tab page. If the Edge browser fails to start, reset the Edge browser or repair Edge.

Step 2: In order to add a website or URL to the top sites section, there must be a vacant or blank tile. To remove an existing website, hover the mouse cursor on one of the top sites to see the “x” sign. Click the “x” sign to remove it.

Step 3: Now, click on the blank tile to see a URL box. Enter your favorite website or webpage’s URL in the field, and then click Add button to add website to top sites section of Edge. Using this method, you can add websites to top sites section of Edge.

Now that you have added your favorite website to top sites section of Edge, we recommend you pin it to avoid Edge from automatically replacing it with another website that you visit more often.

To pin the website, right-click on the tile and then click Pin option. To remove, right-click and then click Remove option.