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Bug 113045 - "On New Page" setting may not be necessary
"On New Page" setting may not be necessary
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Preferences
0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Marco Pesenti Gritti
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-05-15 08:57 UTC by Seth Nickell
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
"Killing prefs is easy when you're beautiful" Ok that was lame...patch!!! (9.24 KB, patch)
2003-05-18 20:42 UTC, Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
none Details | Review

Description Seth Nickell 2003-05-15 08:57:27 UTC
I have a feeling that the best option for new pages is to just show the
current page in the new window, but to start the new window with the
location bar focused and the URL selected, so you can just start typing to
enter a new URL. This gets the basic advantages of "blank page".

WRT to "Home Page", it is very easy to click the toolbar button to get to
the home page from the new page, and I suspect most people do not really
use "home pages" that much. If the default is to go to the home page, it is
not easy to get to the "last page". So one direction is easier than the
other, which is why I suggest that "On New Page" should be the default. I
think its probably good enough that a preference is not really necessary.
Comment 1 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-05-15 09:20:42 UTC
That pref is in very serious danger ;) (/me need to look at fixing 
mozilla focus, to not steal it from the location entry when first 
page is loaded :/)
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2003-05-18 20:42:07 UTC
Created attachment 16611 [details] [review]
"Killing prefs is easy when you're beautiful" Ok that was lame...patch!!!
Comment 3 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-05-19 19:01:36 UTC
Looks good please commit. /me thinks at how hard would have been to do
this in galeon and feel better.
Comment 4 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2003-05-19 19:37:04 UTC
dead...i mean fixed :)
Comment 5 Xan Lopez 2003-05-20 09:27:46 UTC
Ok, just wondering, is really necessary to actually _load_ the new
page every time? I begin to fear this is a world conspiracy against
us poor dialup users ;)
I mean, I don't really have nothing against "cloning" the last page
every time, but if it involves fetching in it from the net I'd have
to fight a bit to bring back the option to load a blank page as I 
don't have exactly "bandwidth to spare". 
And as a final flame, when I open a new tab/window I usually want to
go to a new (doh) web, I could not care less about what I was viewing
before.
Comment 6 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-05-20 10:54:05 UTC
Well I dont personally feel it like a big issue (dialup user too), the
page is in cache, so a lot of it will not be refetched, and anyway if
I dont need to use it I'll type the new url and the fetch will stop.
But I think it's possible to clone pages with mozilla, like we do for
View source. So it's really a problem, it can be fixed I think.
Cloning will probably work better also for post urls ...
Comment 7 Xan Lopez 2003-05-20 17:08:32 UTC
IMHO anything different than ZERO bandwidth activity to clone the
page is completely untolerable, so yeah please, as a first step
we should fix that :)
As a second step I'd like to humbly ask why a pref to disable cloning
on new window/tab is crack.
Comment 8 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-05-20 17:27:11 UTC
I dont think it's crack. It's just matter if his usefullness is worth
the cost. I'm unable to see your problem with bandwith, so my opinion
is that it's not worth ... But this is just an opinion.
Comment 9 Seth Nickell 2003-05-21 04:14:14 UTC
Most people aren't using much bandwidth unless they're actively
engaged with a window, so when you are opening a new window the extra
"bandwidth use" is pretty inconsequential. Yeah, you *might* lose 15kb
that could have been used for a current download on a complete cache
miss...but that is not terribly disasterous even on a dialup connection.