Yeah I am also unable to cc anybody. I will just hope that this will be seen somehow. O:)

Thank you for the report.

From my point of view this is not a bug. Because of your described step 2 and step 3 the Bookmarks Bar (of the NTP) will remain under the Toolbar, until you leave focus from Omnibox. This means, ff you click somewhere on the page, the Toolbar will animate away and the whole NTP (incl. the Bookmarks Bar of the NTP) will appear.

If you always want to see immediately the Bookmarks Bar of new created Tab in Fullscreen Mode, you have no other chance to enable "Always Show Bookmarks Bar".


BTW: Please update your Chrome to latest Chrome Stable 62 :-)

I could see calling this a bug, since if you show the bookmark bar, then hide it again, the NTP bookmark bar anchors to the bottom of the omnibox as the reporter expects.

Hi! Thanks for your replies!

Let me explain the case in my perspective better. :)

When not in fullscreen;
- Obviously I always have the search bar visible in all kinds of tabs
- If I have Always Show Bookmarks enabled, I have the bookmarks bar in both currently-in-use tabs and newly-opened tabs.
- If I don't have the Always Show Bookmarks enabled, I don't have bookmarks bar in currently-in-use tabs, but I do have bookmarks in newly-opened tabs (which is the best feature ever, I make use of it a lot, so thanks:)).

When in fullscreen;
- I dont have the search bar unless I move the cursor to the top, but I do have it when I open a new tab. 
- If I have Always Show Bookmarks enabled, I have the bookmarks bar in currently-used tabs only if I move the cursor to the top (expected), and I have the bookmarks bar visible by default under the search bar in newly-opened tabs. (also expected, this is just like the not-fullscreen case)
- If I dont have Always Show Bookmarks Bar enabled, I don't have bookmarks bar in currently-in-use tabs even if I move cursor to the top (expected),
but I do expect to have bookmarks in a newly opened tab. Because when we don't enable Always Show Bookmarks in not-fullscreen mode, we still have the bookmarks in newly-opened tabs. So if we have the search bar visible by default in newly opened tabs in fullscreen, I also expect to see the bookmarks there under the search bar. :)



Note: After playing with these cases a little bit more, I discovered that we actually have the bookmarks in new tabs when Always Show Bookmarks is disabled. But it is hidden under the search bar and user needs to click to somewhere in the screen to make search bar go away and see the bookmarks underneath (without navigating to any other page, aka while still in the default new-tab page).


Hopefully I made things more clear now. And if this is not a bug and the intended behaviour, I then hope that we can get this as a feature one day. O:)

@comment3; I understand that this is the expected behaviour then. But please take the not-fullscreen case behaviour into consideration, because there we have the bookmarks under the search bar and it is easy to access; in fullscreen mode nobody clicks on an empty new tab page expecting to get an extra bar hidden underneath the search bar (at least that is what I experienced). :)

I updated the Chrome, thanks for the heads-up!

[mac triage] I think this is WAI. If you want consistent behaviour in this regard, I think an NTP replacement extension will always show the bookmarks bar "attached". E.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-arts-culture/akimgimeeoiognljlfchpbkpfbmeapkh?hl=en