Google Chrome Question about those 8 "most visited site" panels

Factual Questions
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For those of you who use Google Chrome (I have version 31.0.1650.63 m, if anybody cares), you know that, when you click to open a new blank tab, you open a “page” that includes the Google search engine as well as 8 tiles of webpages, usually your most visited web pages… or so I assumed.

So, the SDMB is easily my most visited website (well, that and Salesforce which we use for work.) And for months now, the SDMB has occupied what I thought was the #1 spot, the top-left position. Other sites would appear, always my most visited sites… Grantland, Cracked, Business Insider, MSNBC, etc… but the positions of these sites would change based upon (I thought) how much I visited them. But the SDMB and Salesforce would always be #1 and 2.

But, for some reason, over the past three days, without any change to my browsing habits, the SDMB has completely fallen off the list. Went from position 1 to position 2 (which was OK, I thought, because Salesforce took over #1), but then dropped to 6 and then completely off the list. Which is a bit of a PITA.

So, my question is: Anybody know how these tiles are generated, i.e., how Google Chrome selects the web pages to display? Any ideas as to why my most-visited website would just drop off this list to be replaced by a site that I haven’t visited since last week?

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As far as I know those tiles are completely dynamically generated. You can remove them by clicking on the X in the upper right corner but that wouldn’t make it drop off the list over a period of time.

You might try clearing your browsing data and seeing if starting over from scratch puts it back on the top.