This has advantages: it simplifies configuration, it gets you faster to not one but multiple frequent destinations, it removes a concept that is difficult to explain to newbies. Alas, it also really exposes your personality, and that can be unwelcome.
The workplace is a social location that, like all social locations, has norms and rules. You are supposed to be 'professional' there, whatever that means this week. In the USA and other countries, one of the norms includes not creating a 'sexually hostile' workplace, or a workplace that is offensive, demeaning, or otherwise exclusionary of the vast breadth of personal histories that talent comes in. We all have to work together, and it currently means we leave our personal lives behind. Certain aspects of you do not belong in the workplace.
We skirt around that, web wise; after all even at work we have a life to lead. Some windows and tabs on browsers are open but hidden, ready to check when nobody is behind us.And certainly at home we live out our full lives, which for adults includes adult themes. So maybe on weekends or at nights you do browse adult sites, or have a contantly refreshing messaging window open for adult websites. Maybe you use adult web chat facilities. Maybe you browse highly graphical sites, maybe not even about sex but about other topics that are nobody's business at work. And that is fine because you are at home.
But if, like me, you are a freelancer, you often have to bring in your own equipment, meaning your own laptop, for work. And so, if I were using Google Chrome, when I had to present something that required opening a new tab, oh god. 9 thumbnails of the sites you visit a lot in the evenings and weekends. Bad enough when you are showing results to a manager, now imagine when doing a presentation for a group with your 9 thumbnails showing up on a projection screen. At a conference. This is already bad enough when typing in the URL bar starts showing a history of where you browsed, but quick typing can make that go away. Those thumbnails show up really fast when you open up a new tab; Chrome was made to be quick.
Chrome does have an Incognito mode: you open a new window from the menu in Incognito mode, and then whatever you do there will have no influence on your history, cookies, or other temporary files the browser uses. So all the sites you open up in that special window will not show up in the thumbnails of the regular window. Still, taking out the Home Page to make things simpler now has had the effect that the user actually has more to keep track of: what should be opened in a normal tab and what in an Icognito tab. So now even at home I have to worry about what work will say about my browsing.
No thanks.
