Re: Epiphany issues

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 01:49, Scott Henson wrote:
> I really like epiphany, especially the book mark manager, but I have
> two issues that have been bothering me and I would like to get some
> discussion on them if at all possible.  Btw, I'm using the Epiphany
> version in Debian Unstable on powerpc.  
> First, this is a long standing gripe that when I start epiphany or ask
> it for a new tab, the focus goes to window and as I have a blank
> homepage, its pretty much useless.  I would much rather the focus went
> into the location bar so that when I open the browser or ask for a new
> tab I can start telling epiphany where I want to go immediately with
> out hitting extra keys(C-L).
This is a bug in mozilla embedding code, see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105153.

> The second issue is one that appeared in the last version or so.  When
> Im trying to scroll through text on a page I just went to without
> clicking anywhere and I hit the down key and it scrolls all the way to
> the bottom.  Also when I have clicked anywhere on the browsing window,
> I see the cursor scrolling through the text.  I don't know any other
> browser that has this type of behavior and it is actually very
> annoying.  I would much rather the old behavior that is very much like
> the pager 'less'.  I think this behavior is much more intuitive
> because the page is very much read only and I feel its better to look
> at the browser window like its a pager window.

You've activated 'caret browsing' mode, it's toggled by F7 key.

Regards,
	Christian