Chrome Newtab — Most_visited9

You have full control over what appears in these slots. Depending on your screen resolution, Chrome displays between . To Enable or Disable Most Visited:

It looks like you're referring to a specific technical flag or an element from Chrome’s internal new tab page (like most_visited9 – possibly a grid position or a debugging class).

Google has moved away from the strict "9-tile grid" in newer versions of Chrome, often favoring a more flexible "Shortcuts" approach. However, the most_visited logic remains the core engine that determines which icons appear when a user hasn't manually set their own shortcuts.

: The list of these nine sites is stored locally in your Chrome Top Sites file within your user profile directory.

: For security reasons, these thumbnails are often isolated within an (often identified in Inspect Element as most-visited-iframe ), preventing the New Tab Page from having direct access to your full browsing history data while still allowing it to display the shortcuts.