Javascript to move focus to browser address bar? [duplicate]

Question

With Safari, if I set it to open new tabs as blank, when I hit cmd-T, my cursor is in the address bar, ready to type a URL or search.

If I set it to go to a homepage, the cursor does not immediately go to the address bar and I have to hit a keystroke.

Is there a Javascript I can put on my homepage (I'm the only one who uses it - usual "bookmark" page) so that when I visit that page, my focus (cursor) automatically goes to the browser's address bar?

I could add a search box but sometimes I want to type a URL directly.

Answer 1

I don't think you can do that, but as you've said it's a "link page", you can put an input on the page that you type the address into, then use a button (or keypress) to do location = yourInput.value; which will take you to the URL you typed in. That won't have omnibox functionality (not unless you get fancy with your JavaScript and integrate it with a Google custom search engine, etc.), but for the "just type in a URL" use case, it'll work.

Alternately, the Google Custom Search Engine (if you like searching with Google) is pretty easy to drop on a page, and you can get an event when the user confirms, which you could use to check if the search input has a URL as opposed to a search in. Kind of roll-your-own omnibox. (Not touting for Google, but doing a CSE is quite easy: Create it with your Google account, drop some script on your page, add a bit of markup, and that's pretty much it. Don't know if Duck Duck Go and such offer the same sort of thing.)