* rules lead to hundreds of tab groups with about:blank
I added a rule at the end with * as the URL pattern to dump everything not in a group into a "Misc" group, and it seems to work except all about:blank pages create invisible new Misc groups:
For now I'm trying to mitigate this by switching the patterns to https://* and http://*:
To reproduce this create a rule with * as the URL pattern and browser, then open the tab groups menu in Chrome.
My suspicion is that these about:blank tab groups are missing the colour and so they don't get picked up by the rule and merged since my rule is for a White/light gray group.
I can't reproduce this exact behavior.
A lot of "invisible" groups being created is a known issue (#48, #49, #53, #63) I probably can't do anything about (unless Chrome changed their extension API to allow accessing those groups).
But it's not really related to the about:blank URL.
Maybe you could take a screen recording for reproduction? Probably in a fresh browser profile for privacy and to rule out any other interfering factors (extensions, ...)