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Open New Tab with a Blank Page Option
This is a very small thing, but I would love to see Edge Chromium allow an "Open new tab with a blank page" option, as Edge Classic does.
Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
MicrosoftThank you @tomscarbach. I will let the New Tab PAge folks know about this ask.
Adding to this, I would appreciate if you guys exposed the local new tab page. I would love build my own NTP or make modifications to the default local NTP.
Actually, you can make a chrome extension to do this. I have already made one. Blank New Tab Page
You can check out developer.chrome.com for more info.Interesting. I don't have any experience with JS, but building a NTP override extension should be the perfect thing to get me started.
MichaelSinzIt is great that an extension can be made but if we really look at this, most users will not do that or will not be able to find such an extension.
In addition to the time and network resources the non-blank new tab costs, it also ends up being a form of tracking the user. Microsoft is better than this and should make it an option (if not the default) to not have the browser continually contacting external services every time a tab is opened.
In fact, in secure workstation environments, this just causes even more concern as the network is constrained and all of that remote access is blocked (and potentially logged/alerted about).
flyhaozi "Actually, you can make a chrome extension to do this."
Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look, but I hope that Microsoft will put the "open to blank page" option into the browser itself.
Chrome's features/functions (including "new tab" options, or more accurately, lack of options) seem to have been closely shaped around Google's business plan (that is, herding users into the Google ecosystem at every turn) rather than user preference/expectation, and quite a number of Chrome extensions have developed as workarounds to allow Chrome to meet user preference/expectation.
Google's single-mindedness about sucking people into the Google ecosystem is one of the reasons that I don't use Chrome at all, and won't.
I totally agree with you, I found options in chromium is too few when I switch from firefox to the new edge.
