diff --git a/js/main.js b/js/main.js
index a5e98aef..f6520549 100644
--- a/js/main.js
+++ b/js/main.js
@@ -473,3 +473,13 @@ respondToRenameVisibility(renameTextArea, handleVisibilityChange);
 if (document.getElementById('extensions') === null) {
   document.getElementById("chat-tab").style.marginBottom = "-29px";
 }
+
+//------------------------------------------------
+// Focus on the chat input after starting a new chat
+//------------------------------------------------
+
+document.querySelectorAll('.focus-on-chat-input').forEach(element => {
+  element.addEventListener('click', function() {
+      document.querySelector('#chat-input textarea').focus();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/modules/models.py b/modules/models.py
index 291383ef..21f5e5f6 100644
--- a/modules/models.py
+++ b/modules/models.py
@@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ def huggingface_loader(model_name):
     if not any([shared.args.cpu, shared.args.load_in_8bit, shared.args.load_in_4bit, shared.args.auto_devices, shared.args.disk, shared.args.deepspeed, shared.args.gpu_memory is not None, shared.args.cpu_memory is not None, shared.args.compress_pos_emb > 1, shared.args.alpha_value > 1, shared.args.disable_exllama, shared.args.disable_exllamav2]):
         logger.info("TRANSFORMERS_PARAMS=")
         pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4, sort_dicts=False).pprint(params)
+        print()
+
         model = LoaderClass.from_pretrained(path_to_model, **params)
         if not (hasattr(model, 'is_loaded_in_4bit') and model.is_loaded_in_4bit):
             if torch.backends.mps.is_available():
diff --git a/modules/ui_chat.py b/modules/ui_chat.py
index 3d3a75df..3193bd67 100644
--- a/modules/ui_chat.py
+++ b/modules/ui_chat.py
@@ -68,14 +68,14 @@ def create_ui():
                 with gr.Row():
                     shared.gradio['rename_chat'] = gr.Button('Rename', elem_classes='refresh-button', interactive=not mu)
                     shared.gradio['delete_chat'] = gr.Button('🗑️', elem_classes='refresh-button', interactive=not mu)
-                    shared.gradio['delete_chat-confirm'] = gr.Button('Confirm', variant='stop', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
-                    shared.gradio['delete_chat-cancel'] = gr.Button('Cancel', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
-                    shared.gradio['Start new chat'] = gr.Button('New chat', elem_classes='refresh-button')
+                    shared.gradio['delete_chat-confirm'] = gr.Button('Confirm', variant='stop', visible=False, elem_classes=['refresh-button', 'focus-on-chat-input'])
+                    shared.gradio['delete_chat-cancel'] = gr.Button('Cancel', visible=False, elem_classes=['refresh-button', 'focus-on-chat-input'])
+                    shared.gradio['Start new chat'] = gr.Button('New chat', elem_classes=['refresh-button', 'focus-on-chat-input'])
 
                 with gr.Row(elem_id='rename-row'):
                     shared.gradio['rename_to'] = gr.Textbox(label='Rename to:', placeholder='New name', visible=False, elem_classes=['no-background'])
-                    shared.gradio['rename_to-confirm'] = gr.Button('Confirm', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
-                    shared.gradio['rename_to-cancel'] = gr.Button('Cancel', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
+                    shared.gradio['rename_to-confirm'] = gr.Button('Confirm', visible=False, elem_classes=['refresh-button', 'focus-on-chat-input'])
+                    shared.gradio['rename_to-cancel'] = gr.Button('Cancel', visible=False, elem_classes=['refresh-button', 'focus-on-chat-input'])
 
         with gr.Row(elem_id='chat-controls', elem_classes=['pretty_scrollbar']):
             with gr.Column():