On Tue, 2026 Apr 7 13:06-04:00, Andres Salomon wrote:
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>> I can try a couple old snapshots to try to find when the behavior changed.
>
> I've verified that it changed between 145 and 146.
Got it nailed down: the behavior changed between
146.0.7680.164-1
146.0.7680.177-1
No relevant notes in Ahrotahn's pull request for .177:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/pull/3721
Not even the big Git changelog seems to show anything for "tab" or
"search". And I don't see anything clearly relevant in the full diff.
It's got to be in there somewhere, but I can't tell my omniboxes from my
contextual chips...
On Tue, 2026 Apr 7 18:31-04:00, Andres Salomon wrote:
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> Meanwhile, chromium 146+ uses what's in
> /etc/chromium/master_preferences' search_provider_overrides::new_tab_url
> for what to display on the new tab page. If you set it to about:blank
> for example, and run chromium --temp-profile, the new tab page will be
> blank. I still haven't narrowed down what changed between 145 and 146,
> but this might also be a good excuse to change how
> search_provider_overrides is handled..
Confirmed that this gets the new-tab page offline again, though it would
be nice to have back the big search field in the middle of the page.
