GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 335331
Several tabs as default pages
Last modified: 2012-10-07 04:50:28 UTC
Edit > Preferences Now it's possible to select as default page the page you have currently open at the browser. If there are several tabs the active tab is chosen. However, it would be good to give the option of having as default pages all the tabs open at the moment. It's a cool feature Firefox has, very useful for many users that tend to visita 3.4 pages every morning when launching the browser.
I think it would probably be better to leave such functionality to a Session Saver extension (bug 316245).
Marking duplicate for now, if you think this bug isn't covered by 316245 please reopen. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 316245 ***
Reopening this feature request, since it's not a duplicate. The feature requested is about the pages you want to see when you start every morning (i.e. your local newspaper homepage), not necessarely about recovering the pages you left at the end of the day (i.e. a buch of pages opened from links you don't need to see anymore).
I would like to see this too.
Confirming Bug
I'm not sure how multiple homepages could be handled. For example, if you have a non-empty homepage, it is opened whenever you press Ctrl+t to create a new tab. Should one expect to see as many tabs opened as there are homepages? That would sound really weird to me.
Yes, I open the browser and I get all the pages I have defined in the Preferences, one tab for each of course. Might sound weird to you, but this is like others and myself end up doing manually every morning, in a more or less regular way. Firefox has this feature implemented so I guess I'm not the only one doing this. :)
Heh, I didn't say I don't believe you. :) What I'm concerned with is the supposed behaviour of new tab creation (and not on browser startup) if having several tabs as homepage(s) were possible. What should Epiphany do in this case?
I see. Blank page? Same as last open tab? First URL defined as home? I have no strong opinions here. You could even let the user select but it is perhaps a too overload UI for such simple functionality. In my case I tend to prefer blank pages when opening a new tab, otherwise i just open the new tabs from current links in page. I don't see any need to rise the default home when ctrl-T, anyway.
Note that you can create a launcher for "epiphany --new-tab URL1 URL2 URL3 etc" that does this. In fact, if creating launchers was easier discoverable as the right way to set a homepage, I'd remove the homepage setting altogether...
*** Bug 479467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i would like to know if now we can set multiple home page? And open each home page in a tab.
Now out of scope with the fact that it autosaves your last used tabs on exit, which is pretty much the same thing as having multiple homepages if you don't close them.