GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 115136
Reset the default value for newly opened tabs.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Newly opened tabs always present the URL of the last visited website in a tab as default URL. It is not very usable because: - you have to delete it to be able to type your new URL (actually starting to type it is enough, but that is disturbing) - if you selected an URL in another application, your selection is lost, and you have to delete the default URL, reselect again and finally paste it. Notice that the middle-click in a page doesn't work anymore which is also disturbing when you want to open non-clickable URLs.
*** Bug 115141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 115274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Apparently this is confusing ... not sure what we should now. Possibilities are: 1 Disable cloning 2 Do cloning loading the old url normally (it could reopen popups for example though, which sucks) 3 Do real cloning and let the user wait 15 seconds to be able to type a new url. Dave, what do you think ?
I'm not too worried about the behavior Damien (the reporter) mentions; I dislike the old address appearing in the new window because it does not correctly show the current address, which is what the address bar is for! For instance, if I set new/windows tabs to open on http://www.google.com, then I expect the address bar to say http://www.google.com, not the address of the page I was previously browsing.
/me just doesn't know what to do. I've come to point of believing that the core problem is the concept of new window itself. I of course have solved this problem with my little applet i've hacked, however this doesn't really work in the short term for epiphany. At least in my former usage patterns, I usually used new window in order to open a link from x-chat (since x-chat is broken). So whatever makes this behavior easiest is probably the way to go. I'm going to pull one of those "Do what seth/mpt say" opinions here, since I really don't know of anything better.
>At least in my former usage patterns, I usually used new window in >order to open a link from x-chat (since x-chat is broken). So whatever >makes this behavior easiest is probably the way to go. Personally I think we should go back having the location empty. If there is no sane way to do cloning, let's remove the feature until there is one ... >I of course have solved this problem with my >little applet i've hacked, however this doesn't really work in the >short term for epiphany. But if you put it somewhere people will be able to start using it. Typing short urls (domains I guess) in the applet and having bookmarks accessible from the same place could work very well for a lot of people. It's worth starting to test the idea ihmo. Just go release 0.1 :) If you have code problems, autoconf crap etc I'd happily help.
I personally think that the best way to do is to have a blank location bar when you open a new tab, not event the about:blank, but nothing. I was forcing this in the old versions of epiphany, but it seems to make it crash now (perhaps another related bug that you could fix).
The bug is fixed in cvs. In previous versions of epiphany we was not showing the url, also when loading home page. (!= about:blank) Ihmo that's a good idea because you can have more useful behaviors together. You can easily do a search on google in a new window and you can easily go to a new page (at least if mozilla wouldnt steal the focus grrrrr). I dont see how it could be confusing, you have your homepage loaded, do you really care to see his url ? Location bar is both read/write and there is a bit of conflict, but in this case I think the write task should have higher priority, because it's what you will do in 99,9999999% of cases ;)
Having my homepage loaded is the best idea I think, but please check that specifying an empty URL (when I say empty, I really mean "") doesn't make it crash on opening new tabs... Thanks for the fix!
I think I confused you ;) The crash with empty homepage is fixed, the url cloning thing is still not removed (but it's very likely to be soon).
I vote empty ("") location for new tabs (^t) and windows (^n). Also, for cloning please create a separate function, like "Open location in new window/tab" or something.
I'd agree
fixed in cvs