Repositioning "Most Visited" List in Google Chrome?

Solution 1:

Unlike app icons, most visited places can't be rearranged, unless you open the Top Places SQLite file and edit them manually.

Update:

So as mentioned, if you open the Top Places file(found at %localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default) using a SQLite database browser like this tool, you can edit the url_rank column of thumbnails table which governs the order in which the thumbnails are displayed.

From my system, this is how the the current tab order is:

You can see that Hacker News is at #3. Ask Ubuntu is down at #8. Now, after bumping up the url_rank to 2, you can see that Ask Ubuntu tab moves up.

Not too hard to create a program which can display the order, and change it to whatever you want.

An alternative is to try the Speed Dial extension, it allows for custom websites to placed on New Tab page screen.