I am building a chrome extension that overrides the default new tab. I have a search input field on this new tab page that I want to focus this field on when a user opens a new tab. I have seen many answers, but none of them is satisfactory since they all have some URLs on the address bar. This extension Ocean Hero has managed to achieve this neat and clean. One thing I notice with this extension is when we open a new tab, initially, the focus is on the address bar then after a blink, it goes to the below searchfield.

**one more thing, When I am adding autoFocus to the field it is not visible in the browser elements attributes.