Focus location bar when tab is loading about newtab-redirect HOT 7 CLOSED

Might not be possible after all :(

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6643634/focus-omnibar-in-google-chrome

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Also, answered in the wiki under Why doesn't the URL bar focus?

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Ops, sorry about that! Will check if the local page can handle an iframe pointing to a remote page. Thanks!

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Trying with the empty local page still doesn't keep the focus on the address bar :(

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Will try to find the newtab template and see if they do something special there.

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No problem.

If you check out issue #4, I posted directions for tweaking the about:blank example from the chrome extensions developer page and specifying a single page (which loses the ability to update through an options page).

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Will try to find the newtab template and see if they do something special there.

The focus of the address bar is done in-code.

As an example, check out the void Navigate(NavigateParams* params) method here in which the navigation bar losing focus is done:

 // If the user navigated from the omnibox, and the selected tab is going to
  // lose focus, then make sure the focus for the source tab goes away from the
  // omnibox.
  if (params->source_contents &&
      (params->disposition == NEW_FOREGROUND_TAB ||
       params->disposition == NEW_WINDOW) &&
      (params->tabstrip_add_types & TabStripModel::ADD_INHERIT_OPENER))
    params->source_contents->web_contents()->Focus();

Although this is most likely not the exact code preventing the address focus, this is similar to why NewTab Redirect doesn't focus the omnibar. The logical execution of code is:

• load redirect.html
• focus omnibar (internal code)
• get user option (js)
• set page location (js)
• render user selected page

There are thousands of other things going on internally in the browser between the time you request a new tab and the time the page you've set in New Tab Redirect's options page actually loads.

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