Make Chrome New Tab Totally Blank

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2014-05
  • Aram Kocharyan

    I want to open a tab and nothing but a tab. So far, I have used New Tab Redirect! and specified a blank redirect URL, which becomes about:blank. But when I press CMD/CTRL + T it gives focus to the location bar but puts the cursor after about:blank. Is there a way to either clear about:blank entirely or select all the text, so I can start typing straight away and not have to CMD/CTRL + A and backspace/delete?

    EDIT:

    I tried :

    html {
    display: none !important;
}

    With the stylish plugin for URL chrome://newtab but it didn't work.

    • Answers
  • Tom Wijsman

    When you press CTRL+A or CTRL+L it will select the whole location bar.

    The backspace key is not required, when text is selected and you start to type the text will disappear.

  • Dr. Edward Morbius

    There's the "Blank New Tab" extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pfdloiaebhgmjpaclbbodcmlmppkakjh

    Should do what you're looking for.

  • Joe

    If you are happy getting your hands dirty with a bit of css then I'd suggest using Stylish (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe ) to alter the default tab page - leaves the location bar blank.


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  • Diago

    The only way to stop the blank page is to use Right Click and Save Link As.

    Since Chrome does not natively support an embedded PDF reader it assumes the PDF link is trying to open another page. It then let's the file system take over allowing your PDF reader to open the actual file. It doesn't have any facility to close the new tab that opened as it assumes it is being used for displaying the file.

    However there is good news. You can use the Docs Preview Extension to preview all these documents in Chrome and it will stop this behaviour since the files will open in Chrome.

    Newer versions of Chrome does support embedded PDF viewing so a lot of this answer is obsolete

  • Al E.

    Okay, I got it to do this finally.

    1. Go to about:plugins and disable the Adobe Acrobat Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape

    2. Open Adobe Acrobat and go to edit --> preferences --> internet and uncheck "display PDF in browser"

    (Steps 1 and 2 might be redundant, but this is what I did and it worked.)

    1. Click on a PDF link. Depending on your settings, you will either get a popup asking where to save the PDF, or the PDF will save automatically to your specified directory. If you want all PDFs to auto-open, click the little arrow to the right of a PDF download, and select "Always open this type of file".

    Hope that helps.