Re: New Tab Behavior and Close Other Tabs

["Michael M." <mcubed slashmail org>]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 18:15 -0400, Martin Grondin wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Sorry if this has been beaten to death before. I'm sure it comes up. I
> tried searching to see if this has been discussed but the search
> function for the archives doesn't seem to work entirely too well. 
> 
> I just want to say that I really love Epiphany Browser. It has
> recently become my default browser of choice when using GNOME.
> However, though I find it very awesome, I find there are one or two
> things that really seem to kind of grate on me: 
> 
> 1.) Opening the homepage on every new tab. This would feel a bit
> better if the location bar was selected by. In another case I feel
> every page should be blank, at the most. The reason being is when a
> user opens a new tab they automatically try to type in their new
> destination. Epiphany breaks this reflexive behavior. 


Do you mind me asking:  why do you want to open a new tab?

I'm just curious, because the only time I want to open a new tab
explicitly is when I *want* to go to my homepage (which, for me, is
iGoogle).  So a simple Ctrl+T takes me there.

Anytime I want to go to a different website in a new tab while keeping
the current website in the current tab, or search one of my predefined
search engines, I use deskbar-applet (Alt+F3 <enter term(s)>), and the
new tab opens with the result I'm looking for.  (I have Epiphany
configured in my GNOME settings to open a new tab in an existing browser
window by default, rather than a new browser window.)  Deskbar-applet
can pull from your regular bookmarks and your smart bookmarks, as well
as search your delicious tags.  You can set up keyword searches with
smart bookmarks, like in Firefox.  So for example, I'm reading a web
page about "abcde" and I want to search Google for more information, I
do <Alt+F3> gg abcde <enter>, and the search results open in a new tab;
or wiki abcde to search Wikipedia, or imdb abcde to search the Internet
Movie Database.  Or if I'm reading a web site and I want to open another
web site I know I have bookmarked, I do <Alt+F3> name-of-bookmark
<enter>, and the appropriate site opens in a new tab.  

I just don't get why you'd want to open a blank tab.  What's the use of
that?  I know Firefox does that, but I always thought that was kind of
silly.


-- 
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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