Re: New Tab Behavior and Close Other Tabs

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

To me, that seems you are using Deskbar applet to get the
functionality that Firefox has built in. Or I'm getting lost in all
your complexity.

Anyways, I open blank tabs (in FF) constantly, to navigate somewhere,
and this is one of several reasons why Epiphany is too much of an
annoyance even though I dream of sometime being able to use a
GNOME-integrated browser. Been hanging out on this list for years just
because I would like to see Epiphany succeed at some point. But I
don't use it.

The issue of blank tabs/homepage comes up often on this list, and
usually there's this or that explanation of what new behaviour that is
supposedly better that we all should learn instead, but it usually
seems much more complex or for power users (involving external apps
like deskbar applet or undiscoverable keyboard shortcuts like
CTRL-enter). Isn't GNOME supposed to be easy and intiutive?

Maybe the Epiphany way isn't what most people want, old habits or not?

-- K


On 6/1/07, Michael M. <mcubed slashmail org> wrote:
> 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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