Re: New Tab Behavior and Close Other Tabs

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

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 07:28 -0400, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:36:36AM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Uh, because one wants to go to some page and doesn't want to waste
> time by having it load some other page first? 


Well my point was that I never have need to open a blank tab first in
order "to go to some page," nor to I ever have to waste time by loading
some other page first.  It seems an unnecessary waste of time to me, to
open a blank tab in order to get somewhere else, when there are plenty
of methods to get exactly where you want to go (in a new tab) without
first opening a blank tab.

I'm not trying to imply that I'm doing it right and others are doing it
wrong.  I'm just trying to understand what the usefulness of Ctrl+T
opening a blank tab is.  As I said, I use Ctrl+T when I explicitly want
to go to my homepage.  If the behavior of Ctrl+T were changed, I would
have to keep my homepage as a separate bookmark and get there that way.
Not a huge deal by any means, but I would have to get used to it and I
would have no more use for Ctrl+T, since I can't imagine wanting to
stare at a blank tab.  The fact that some other browsers do this has
always seemed to me like a workaround for the problem that they aren't
terribly well integrated into a desktop environment.  Epiphany is well
integrated.  The only other browser I have any past experience with that
comes close to matching Epiphany's desktop integration is Camino on OS
X.

(Unlike others, I do find the concept of a homepage useful, though I
didn't used to.  But with the advent of so-called "web 2.0"-style
homepages like iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc., I find it useful to
put exactly what content I want all in one place and have that
accessible through a simple keystroke combo.)


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Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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