Re: New Tab Behavior and Close Other Tabs

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hello all,

Op vrijdag 01-06-2007 om 08:09 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Martin
Grondin:

> Your use seems to be atypical of users that use many other browsers
> and don't have the deskbar-applet loaded. A new tab is opened, often,
> to browse to another site without having to leave the old site. This
> way you can go back and forth. I often do this when I want to look for
> things in several search engines. 

Ctrl+Enter is your friend. Quoting the Frequently Asked Questions:

"To have focus on the location bar in newly opened tabs, you need to set
an empty startpage in Epiphany preferences. Alternatively press ctrl+L
to focus location bar, type or paste an URL and press ctrl+enter to open
that URL in a new tab."

Of course, this also works for search engine smart bookmarks.

> A side effect of this behavior in epiphany is, most importantly, is to
> have the location bar selected by default and ready to take input.
> However, for me at least, loading a homepage in every tab breaks the
> flow of how I work.

One of the design decisions in Epiphany is that whenever a page is
loaded, it should receive focus. You could argue that this is wrong, but
doing it another way has equally "bad" consequences. You would be forced
to manually focus the page you just loaded to interact with it by
keyboard.

Personally, I believe the concept of a "homepage" has long outlived its
usefulness.

regards,

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