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Sometime relatively recently (within past month probably), Chrome changed its behavior when opening a new tab.
Previously when I hit Ctrl+T to open a tab, it would pre-select whatever was in the address bar so I could start typing immediately and wipe out what was in there.
Now, it will set the cursor at the beginning of whatever is there w/o anything selected.
I'm used to hitting Ctrl+T then immediately typing in a search and now its pretty annoying b/c I end up w/something like this
This doesn't happen on my other computers, so I'm guessing some local setting changed as opposed to a universal behavior change. It annoys me enough that I've tried reinstalling chrome to no avail.
Any ideas on what could've caused this/how to fix it?
I'm using v61.0.3163.100(64bit)
Philip
Posted 2017-09-28T13:14:29.200
Reputation: 133
So why do you have anything in the address bar of a new tab? If you usually type something in there, set your default new tab to about:blank. – kreemoweet – 2017-09-28T23:14:05.960
I'm using an extension which goes to chrome://apps/ by default. This is handy b/c even though I usually don't use those (I'm usually just typing in a search), I frequently do want one of the google "apps" and this is a quick way to get to them.
It used to select the chrome://apps text however, which it isn't doing anymore.
I'd honestly forgotten that was an extension and just figured it was a built-in feature of Chrome...to set what a new tab went to. – Philip – 2017-09-29T00:08:22.363