Vimium on new-tab page

When creating a new tab with Ctrl-T, Vimium is not active and the focus is locked in the address bar. The whole Vimium UX is broken.

• Does anyone know how to fix this?

Absent a Vimium fix, I’ve been using New Tab Redirect to redirect chrome://newtab to a blank page with a very-long TTL (on which Vimium is active). Unfortunately, we can’t do the same trick in Vimium. First, it completely disables chrome://newtab (and it wouldn’t be possible to have an option to re-enable it). Second, redirecting to pages/blank.html still leaves the focus in the address bar.

As a super lightweight alternative to New Tab Redirect, I implemented this:

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-url/njigpponciklokfkoddampoienefegcl
• https://github.com/smblott-github/chrome-new-tab-url

(which might be of interest to some Vimium users, absent a Vimium solution).

[Chekote]

I have this problem with Chrome 59.0.3071.86. It doesn’t matter what is focused. If you are on the new tab page, vimium doesn’t work at all. You have to navigate to a real webpage for it to work.

[sunnijie]

To use vimium commands after creating a new tab with Ctrl-T, just press <tab> when Chrome focuses the omnibox.