When I initially run Chromium I customize to explicitly turn off Tiles and Cards. Nonethless the tiles or cards of recently visited sites still appear as icons on chrome://newtab page.
I have negotiated around this bug previously by using Local Modifications or Local Overrides to store the page locally and substitute JavaScript used. Blocking JavaScript on chrome://newtab does not appear to be possible at Settings becuase chrome:// is not recognized as a valid Web URL.
I do not search from omnibox. I do not want chrome anticipating that I will.
Ideally Chrome should be recognizing that I turned off Cards and Tiles (Most Visited) on first run. That does not happen.
I am asking here how to permanently turn off Tiles and Cards (and JavaScript) altogether on chrome://newtab?