Open empty page option (no URL passed)

[nikitavoloboev]

In Safari prefs you can set to open empty page when new tab is open:

If it is set, I thought if I set this in Vimari prefs:

"openTabUrl": "",

It would open an empty page too but it doesn't. It opens DuckDuckGo page for me still.

Would be good to support empty string syntax in openTabUrl to mean open empty page.

[nbelzer]

I would like to see this as well but unfortunately this seems to be a limitation in the API provided by Apple.

If the extension cannot access the URL, no tab is opened.

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Having said that I'm not sure why we open the tab in this manner as we could use the window.open function. Testing this real quick it would allow you to specify urls that are not possible now like topsites:// or as you mentioned "". Unless I find a reason for the current way of opening a tab this seems like the way to go.

[danielcompton]

The current way of opening the tab uses Apple's native APIs, but as you noticed it only lets you open HTTP and HTTPS URLs. Switching to window.open seems fine to me.