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tomscharbach
Bronze Contributor
Apr 11, 2019

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.  
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flyhaozi
Copper Contributor
Apr 18, 2019

_shellprompt1515 

Actually, you can make a chrome extension to do this. I have already made one. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jmbngnnlimnakiibacglaeflpghellfh
You can check out developer.chrome.com for more info.

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_shellprompt1515
Iron Contributor
Apr 19, 2019

flyhaozi 

Interesting. I don't have any experience with JS, but building a NTP override extension should be the perfect thing to get me started.

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    MichaelSinz
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    Nov 08, 2019

    It 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).

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