Disable "about:blank" when opening a new tab?
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Just updated to 3.6.2165.34 (Stable channel) (64-bit). When I open a new tab, Vivaldi now pre-populates the address field with "about:blank", which interferes with searching from the address field. How do I disable that?
Thanks!
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Ah! I see, thank you!
For now, what seems to work is:- Setting "New Tab Page" to "Homepage"
- Setting "Homepage" to "Specific Page" (blank)
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@madonnaragu That did NOT work.
It worked for a while, then it stopped. Oh well. -
Even installing Chrome 'blank new tab' extensions don't work. Very frustrating.
//Edit as soon as I posted this, I followed the link above and used the solution where you set the start page as your new tab page. I don't use the start page, so I just removed everything from it in the settings and now I have a blank page again. Good solution!
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@Gwen-Dragon That's great news, thank you!
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I use a empty Speed Dial page for new tab
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If you put a specific page to open when you open a new tab it will no longer select the url bar, please fix this!
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@Gwen-Dragon Not yet fixed in 3.7... if you put a specific page to open when you open a new tab the address bar is not selected.
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Hm, two years later, I still have this problem. Is there no way to get rid of the about:blank?
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@felagund
Hi and no, you have it again.
This is a regression bug, reported and confirmed.Cheers, mib
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Aha! I thought it did not use to happen, but then found this thread and thought I was hallucinating. Did it just come with 6.4?
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@felagund
The bug was reported 06/Oct/23, so was in 6.2 too.
I never notice it.
VB-100538
Blank pages display about:blank in address bar, confirmed.Cheers, mib
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Same here, but it flashed up only a milisecond, not even noticed it until now.
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Im running 6.4.3160.44 on a Mac and I have about:blank in the search box. Very irritating as most of the times when copying and pasting links I have to manually by hand delete about:blank after pasted link.
Why is there text in the search box? It should be empty by default!
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@Metamatic Can not reproduce this on Win 11 23H2
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By the way VB-100538 is still open (I experience it), as per https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/742191
