Michael Gratton wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 23:26 +0100, Mattias Bengtsson wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 16:36 -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: >>> My only criticism of the way tabs are handled is that Epiphany does >>> not have a mode, as Firefox does, that forces new windows into tabs in >>> the existing window. That's actually about the *only* thing that I >>> miss in Epiphany as compared to Firefox. >> I think this is only a workaround for the real problem. The web >> developer shouldn't be the one to decide which pages go into new tabs, >> windows or load in the same window. This should be the users choice. >> Anything else is unintuitive. > > I think Steve was saying that FF gives the user the choice to have all > new windows show up as new tabs, rather than letting websites say "open > this link in a tab". > > One way of doing this without needing an extra preference would be to > overload the existing always_show_tabs_bar pref. If the user wants the > tab bar always visible, it might be fair to assume the user also wants > all new windows opened as tabs, including popups from web sites and > external links (e.g. clicking a link in a message in your email client). > If not, then assume the user wants new windows instead. > > This holds true for my sample of N=1, i.e. me. :) It holds true for me too :-) One thing I keep bumping into though is the lack of a turn-tab-into-window feature. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com http://therning.org/magnus What if I don't want to obey the laws? Do they throw me in jail with the other bad monads? -- Daveman
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