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Bug 322835 - Opening a new tab should focus the cursor in the address bar
Opening a new tab should focus the cursor in the address bar
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Tabs
1.9.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-30 13:17 UTC by Matthew East
Modified: 2005-12-04 17:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Matthew East 2005-11-30 13:17:05 UTC 
Summary says it all really. When I ctrl T to open a new tab, the cursor is not
focused in the address bar and I can't type a new address: I have to click in
there with the mouse. This is quite inconvenient: it would be really a great
time saver for me if the cursor focused in the address bar by default.

Other information:
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2005-11-30 13:26:43 UTC 
It does focus the address bar when you set your homepage to "blank page" in the
prefs dialogue.
Comment 2 Matthew East 2005-11-30 13:27:59 UTC 
yes it does, and that is the solution I have adopted, but that is not really
good enough: I like having a homepage.
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-12-04 17:01:08 UTC 
It has been implemented like this on purpose: when your homepage is a search
engine for example, you want its input entry focused and not the address bar. 

By the way, clicking in the address bar is not necessary, if you use Ctrl+T to
open a new tab, Ctrl+L will focus the address entry.

If you just want to open a certain webpage upon launching Epiphany, consider
making an URL launcher, and use about:blank as homepage in the Epiphany preferences.

So sorry, but this is not a bug :)