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That's really sad. It works in FireFox!
Don't you worry -- Mozilla isn't immune from this. They removed this feature on Firefox for iOS which is super annoying. You can type in new tab page but it's not allowed to be about:blank. Yay installing an empty HTML page on my server just to have basic functionality.
In the same vein, I use https://tabliss.io/ for the simple fact it requires minimal permissions and works on firefox. The reason I started using something like this is because the "top sites" I visit is not something I want on my screen if I'm showing it to other people.
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But Google decided that's not actually what you wanted to do and removed that feature. Funnily enough the blank page extension was made by a Chrome developer, so I assume there were some team internal tensions and those who wanted to keep that feature were overridden..
And Google is probably right - for most people, if all of a sudden their new tab page was just a blank screen they'd assume something was broken. It was pretty easy to change that setting without knowing what it meant. Installing an extension is a much more obvious process - it has a description and screenshots showing exactly what it does, so nobody should be surprised. Both chrome and Firefox have been shifting to…
I really love Markdown New Tab. Its very helpful having a little Markdown page to quickly take notes, have links to frequently visited pages, or whatever else I want to see what I open a new tab. I think its probably the best extension I have in Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-new-tab/d...