How to edit Chrome thumbnails
Published on 24. november 2009 inI just wanted to shared this tip, if anyone else wants a bit of control over the thumbnails that show up in the "New tab" page of Chrome.
For me, it was annoying that it had saved the http://twitter.com/ url, because the front page has the stupid login box where you have to get your mouse going. Instead, I want it to go to http://twitter.com/home which has a much better login box.
This is not supported by chrome, as far as I can tell, so I went digging. And I found a small file that contains the tabs. In my case (On XP in danish) it is here:
C:\Documents and Settings\Morten Bock Sørensen\Lokale indstillinger\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences
UPDATE:
I now upgraded to Windows 7, and here the file is found
in:
C:\Users\Morten Bock
Sørensen\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User
Data\Default\Preferences
Open it with your favorite text editor, and look near the bottom. There is a list of "pinned_urls" in what looks like Json to me. I just changed the link I needed from:
"1cc089548931c4fe0463e7a98ec6078e": {
"direction": "ltr",
"index": 2,
"title": "Twitter / Home",
"url": "http://twitter.com/"
},
to
"1cc089548931c4fe0463e7a98ec6078e": {
"direction": "ltr",
"index": 2,
"title": "Twitter / Home",
"url": "http://twitter.com/home"
},
And off we go :-)
Just remember to do this while Chrome is closed, otherwise it will overwrite your changes.

On 24. marts 2010 by What?
C:\Documents and Settings\Morten Bock Sørensen\Lokale indstillinger\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences
That would be very useful if it were in English.
On 25. marts 2010 by Morten Bock Sørensen
I just updated the post with a sample of how the folder looks in an english windows 7 install.