This is an issue in Chrome itself. There's a number of Ctrl key combinations that they do not allow JavaScript to override:

Ctrl-N
Ctrl-Shift-N
Ctrl-T
Ctrl-Shift-T
Ctrl-W

Personally I hate this and think it was a very, very bad decision on the part of the Chrome developers. It has been debated over and over again and they basically overruled common sense. Their "solution" is to launch the website in question in "application mode":

Menu -> Tools -> Create Application Shortcuts

If you do that while viewing your Gate One server it will create a shortcut on your desktop (just what we need--more shortcuts on the desktop) which you can then use to launch Gate One in a special Chrome window that allows you to use Ctrl-N.

I tried to get this fixed a LOOOONG time ago when it was an open bug:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84332

When they added the application shortcut thing they closed that issue... Even though it didn't really solve anything and creates new problems.

IMPORTANT:

There has been a proposal to remedy this situation that has been open for a long time now with absolutely zero progress:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=33056

If you're like me and you think this is a seriously bad judgement on behalf of the Chrome developers please star that open bug and make a comment on that page asking the devs, "WTF? Seriously?" 😄

disable Ctrl+n to open new browser #290

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