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On opening a new window, Google is the homepage, cursor starts in the Google Search field, NOT the URL field.

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As stated in the question I would like my cursor to start in the Google search field not the URL field, IE does it.

As stated in the question I would like my cursor to start in the Google search field not the URL field, IE does it.

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I' not sure what you want to achieve as there seems to be some confusion: Title: cursor starts in the Google Search field, NOT the URL field.

I would like my cursor to start in the Google search field not the URL field


The Google website runs a script that automatically sets focus to its search bar, so if you want to set focus to the location/address bar instead then you would have to use another page as the home page (a new window opens with the home page) or possibly use a bookmark (on the Bookmarks Toolbar) set to about:blank and hold down the Shift key and left-click this bookmark to open a new window with that page.

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Not with my system. Focus is to the URL with www.google.com. New tab, new page and upon open. Drives me crazy.

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Does this also happen when you use the HTTPS protocol and open https://www.google.com instead of http://www.google.com ?

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