[chromewebstore] New tab shortcut (t) when set to pages/blank.html doesn't give the focus to the URL bar automatically in Brave

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Version 1.78.102 Chromium: 136.0.7103.113 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Running i3 on Ubuntu 25.04

Pressing t, the pages/html loads fine, but nothing is selected; if I start typing I'm just in 'Normal mode' and I can't search or type a URL. This forces met to either tab twice; or use a browser shortcut <C-l> or <F6>.

Conversely if I instead use the the browser shortcut <C-t> I get pages/html with the URL bar and the resource string selected ready to start typing.

My suggestion would be to, if it doesn't already exist (see E2), have a command which selects the URL bar, which could globally work, such as <g-I> or be set as a website override so that pages/blank.html can have the URL bar selected simply by entering Insert Mode.

E: Updated keyboard shortcuts that got eaten as html

E2: I discovered Vomnibar.activateEditUrl by default with ge (gE opens in new tab)

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Also tested on LibreWolf 137.0.2-1 (Vimium 2.2.1) and same issue; except you have to tab even more times