Automatically focus search bar on new tab

[victrme]

Browsers are focusing the address bar when creating a new tab (about:newtab on Firefox, chrome://newtab on Chromium). This behavior happens before the new tab page is loaded, which means we do not have control over it.

This can be tweaked by quickly reloading the page with a search query like ../index.html?x=0, however this really slows down the page, and is not 100% guaranteed to work.

A faster way to do this trick is to use browser.tabs.update like New Tab Override. This can be almost as fast as the default page on slower devices, and requires the "tabs" permission to work.

[Gitoffthelawn]

How about only perform browser.tabs.update when Bonjourr's search bar is displayed? This will improve the performance when Bonjourr's search bar is disabled via its settings.

[victrme]

Yes this is the plan. We might add a "Focus search bar on new tabs" option to make sure the page is never slowed down by default.

[Gitoffthelawn]

Yes this is the plan. We might add a "Focus search bar on new tabs" option to make sure the page is never slowed down by default.

That sounds great. Thanks.