Hi Kevin,
I looked into this, and tracked down the issue to an edit in
search-engines.patch, i.e.
https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium/-/blob/master/debian/patches/debianization/search-engines.patch
Specifically, this one:
- "new_tab_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/chrome_newtab";,
+ "new_tab_url": "https://start.duckduckgo.com/";,
We made this change because the original URL results in an obtrusive
prompt as the very first thing you see in a new profile. I have
experimentally reverted this edit in a build of 156.0.8078.73-1, and
attached a screenshot of the prompt.
If you click that prompt away, the "Customize" button on the page yields
a "Most-visited sites" option.
Could you try setting the above chrome_newtab URL as your home page, and
see if that restores the missing option for you?
