GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 113045
"On New Page" setting may not be necessary
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 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.
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 :/)
Created attachment 16611 [details] [review] "Killing prefs is easy when you're beautiful" Ok that was lame...patch!!!
Looks good please commit. /me thinks at how hard would have been to do this in galeon and feel better.
dead...i mean fixed :)
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.