Make Chrome New Tab Totally Blank
2014-05
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.
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.
There's the "Blank New Tab" extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pfdloiaebhgmjpaclbbodcmlmppkakjh
Should do what you're looking for.
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.
Sometimes when I download a PDF, Chrome will open a new blank tab, how do I prevent this?
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Newer versions of Chrome does support embedded PDF viewing so a lot of this answer is obsolete
Okay, I got it to do this finally.
Go to
about:plugins
and disable the Adobe Acrobat Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and NetscapeOpen 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.)
- 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.