Re: epiphany tab functionality

["Kristoffer Lundén" <kristoffer lunden gmail com>]

On 8/28/06, Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> wrote:

Hi Brendan,

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Brendan Martens wrote:

> Hi. I generally love epiphany but there is one real show stopper for me.
> I cannot tell epiphany to force new windows into a new tab. I feel like
> this is a required option, especially given the varied user base that
> epiphany has. Maybe I'm just missing something, but as far as I can tell

Thanks for your feedback. Indeed this is not the first time that the
subject has been brought up. Epiphany doesn't have a way to force popup
windows into tabs (if I recall correctly, this decision was made in the
early days because it could break proper functioning of some web sites).

Popups should never be forced into new tabs - new windows should be able to. That is, normal links and forms with target="_blank" could go to a new tab instead, while _javascript_s window.open is not modified.

Firefox has had this functionality for a very long time, and I've never seen it break anything. There just is no functional difference between the two: in both cases the new window/tab gains focus, so it's not hidden like with middle click. And well, it just works since it is essentially the same thing: two tabs in one or two windows.

 -- Stoffe

However, you can block popups and unhide them if you encounter a blocked
popup that you want to see. Also, you can tell Epiphany to open pages
that are requested by another process in a new tab, you can do this by
going into the Preferred Applications preference window and selecting
the corresponding radio button.

regards,

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