Overwrite the URL of the current tab when a hotkey is called from a "new tab"

[carbon-steel]

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[jchang504]

Since chrome://newtab is not actually a webpage but a Chrome built-in, it doesn't run the content script, so this is impossible from the new tab page itself. Extensions can replace the default new tab page with their own page, but I'd prefer not to do this as the new tab page has useful things (i.e. most common recent webpages), and just looks better than anything we could come up with easily. Also, what's the use case for this? If you're going to use a hotkey, shouldn't you just use it directly from whatever page you were on rather than first creating a new tab then using the hotkey? The only case I see is when you first open your browser and start at chrome://newtab.

[jasonbak]

Chrome inhibits extensions to be used on chrome:// URLs or the Chrome Web Store for security reasons.