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SBA93101's avatar
SBA93101
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Disable Dash for new tab in Chrome

I installed the Dash extension in Chrome (MacOS), but now a new tab displays the Dash homepage, rather than the old page I had selected. How can I disable the Dash homepage for New Tabs in Chrome?

  • Hi SBA93101 and woodae,

     

    Thanks for reaching out and taking the time to provide us with your valuable feedback. We appreciate your efforts in helping us improve our product! As it stands, the intention is for the Dash Start Page to be the primary experience for each new tab in order to encourage efficiency. However, we've heard your feedback and the team is exploring alternate options to having the Start Page be the default for every new tab. 
     
    We are committed to providing you with the best possible experience, and your feedback plays a crucial role in helping us achieve this goal. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us either on the Community or via Support.
     
    Thank you!
     
    James
    Dropbox Dash Support
  • woodae's avatar
    woodae
    New member | Level 2

    Same problem here, looking for same solution.

     

    I've disabled the addon - the only solution I can find. It seems to have taken complete control of the new tab settings.

    • pangorbalm's avatar
      pangorbalm
      New member | Level 2

      how did you disable the add on?

      I just started with this drop box thing and already I'm totally annoyed with the same problem you're having! LOL

      • DOCTOR_NO's avatar
        DOCTOR_NO
        Helpful | Level 6

        Nope.  I just stopped using Dropbox.  If this keeps up...this nothing, I mean... I'm going to dump it and uninstall and just throw it on the pile with all the others that can't seem to get this customer support thing.

         

  • DBXjames's avatar
    DBXjames
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    Hi SBA93101 and woodae,

     

    Thanks for reaching out and taking the time to provide us with your valuable feedback. We appreciate your efforts in helping us improve our product! As it stands, the intention is for the Dash Start Page to be the primary experience for each new tab in order to encourage efficiency. However, we've heard your feedback and the team is exploring alternate options to having the Start Page be the default for every new tab. 
     
    We are committed to providing you with the best possible experience, and your feedback plays a crucial role in helping us achieve this goal. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us either on the Community or via Support.
     
    Thank you!
     
    James
    Dropbox Dash Support
    • DOCTOR_NO's avatar
      DOCTOR_NO
      Helpful | Level 6

      You offer to help everyone with this issue, but I can not find a single answer to this question.  I'm fine with you being all grateful for the input and feedback and stuff.  You're welcome.

      Now, I want to get rid of this pushy overbearing and rather sneaky thing, and to get my computer back...including the new tab settings.  How do I do that?  Please answer with actual instructions or, if you can't, tell me that.

      Answering that quickly would be good.

    • woodae's avatar
      woodae
      New member | Level 2

      Hi James, 

      Dash looks like a promising product, let's face it, this kind of application for AI is only going to grow, so it's easy to see why it has your focus.

      I think what I and the others on this thread are saying is - yes, Dash is awesome and it is something worth using, it's valuable, it's cool that you want to encourage efficiency etc.

      But what you're missing is that you can't know how Dash fits into users' lives, workflows, use cases and priorities and you might not want to impose your vision on them. None of those things are up to you to know, or make decisions on. Let users choose how they use it, this prescriptive strategy is probably not a good one, and... by the way... you're missing out on all the metadata about how people would actually use the tools in practice - if you gave them choices.
      Efficiency is always going to be user and case-specific, leave that to us, we know what to do - Dropbox can focus on making the tool efficient to use instead of the take-over bid on what is probably the most important and frequently-used app on any device anywhere in the world. Not all browsing sessions are Dropbox ones.
      Many thanks.

    • DOCTOR_NO's avatar
      DOCTOR_NO
      Helpful | Level 6

      So this tells me to.... to what?  Reach out?   I've done that and I understand you are grateful.  You are welcome.  Now, if it wouldn't be too much to ask, can you publish instructions for removal?  If not that, some kind of clue where we might go to find those instructions?  By instructions for removal, I mean a series of clearly defined steps that, when followed, result in Dash being gone.

      Thank you for your time.

      Thank you for my time.

      I have stopped using Drop Box for the present.

      In oh, a couple of weeks or so, if I don't get an actual answer to the question everyone in this  thread is asking, I will uninstall Drop Box.  There are other ways.  Pity.

  • bangtan's avatar
    bangtan
    Helpful | Level 5

    I'm having the same problem... I just don't want it to take over my whole homepage.

    • bangtan's avatar
      bangtan
      Helpful | Level 5

      I love using Dash because of stacks but I don't want it to be my main homepage in my Chrome.

       

      When the Dropbox Dash extension is turned on, I CANNOT see my Google bookmarks and shortcuts which is essential for my work. It would be nice if the extension stays on the extension bar and can be turned on/off onto another tab when clicked. Is there anyway I can get around this?  

    • ketdk's avatar
      ketdk
      New member | Level 2

      I'd like to turn this off please

  • btboyd76's avatar
    btboyd76
    New member | Level 2

    how do I remove dash beta.  It opens whenever i open chrome