As you know, Chrome browser’s New Tab Page comes with a fake Google Search box that shifts focus to address bar as you start to type. Chromium team now wants to make the search box a real one to fix an issue it has in full-screen mode.
Google now wants the search box to stay forever when the user inputs the search query and looks to ensure, search results display in the middle of NTP below the real search box.
New Tab Page Search box doesn’t work in full screen:
Chromium team now addressing a six-year-old bug titled “NTP search box should work like an input”, but not focus jump, especially in the full screen.
Generally, if you now open a new tab in Chrome and go to fullscreen by pressing F11, the search box neither takes the input nor shows the mouse cursor. Hereby design, the focus doesn’t switches to Omnibox in fullscreen. This is really annoying the users and they want Google to resolve this.
Recently, Chrome Canary received a flag related to this called “Real Search box in the New Tab Page” flag, which when turned on, “enables a search box in the middle of NTP that will accept input directly” and the search results will show “below the non-fake input (“realbox”)”.
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