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I'm trying to provide a link to chrome://newtab (the new tab page) for my distraction-preventing page for when I need to access it, however clicking the link gives the error Failed to load resource.

I've tried:

  • Linking to it using <a href="chrome://newtab">
  • Attempting to redirect the user using window.location.
  • The chrome: prefix aliases to chrome:// but still fails to load.

Does anyone know if this is possible or has any ideas to try?

Ross
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I am not sure why it doesn't work, but I think it is for security reasons.
Pages on the internet should not have access to local resources and the new tab page is a local resource.

Aaron de Windt
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Format your link thusly (also will work with firefox and other tabbed browsers):

<a href="about://blank" target="_blank">Click me</a>

EDIT: of course, that's not actually the new tab page. It's just a blank tab. Going to leave it anyways.

Donnie
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I think you'll have to write a Chrome extension to get access to the chrome://newtab link, it doesn't seem possible for an ordinary webpage to access it.

Michael Low
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Edit: This solution no longer works, but I'll leave it for anyone that might try to hunt down why it stopped working.

I finally found that https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab will open chrome://newtab, thanks to this post.

Don't ask me why.

Travis Britz
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