Sometimes, when I open a new tab in Chrome, it first tries to get chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html and while it’s doing it, I cannot enter any URL. Eventually it will popup a message asking me if I want to wait or exit the page…
The way I found to fix it is to go to the page chrome://flags/#use-google-local-ntp, then I disabled “Enable using the Google local NTP”