GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 429717
New tabs should have an empty address bar when opened
Last modified: 2009-07-23 05:28:04 UTC
When you open a new tab the address bar should remain empty all the time but at the same time it should reload the web page you chose by default. Other information: Why? epiphany got a very powerful tool in the address bar, it's like the firefox's address bar and search tool together (in fact is more than that), so if we have the default address in every tab we'll be giving more importance just to one feature and the epiphany's way to search (direct writing in the address bar) is a very nice tool to be left behind. Also is not nice to erase the same thing (default address) every time you open a tab, you not only open a tab to search (in my case in google) but also to load a not linked url or search in the "epiphany's way". In other words, let's get back to the previous behavior. Thanks
IMHO this is not a bug. If only for security reasons, the address bar should always display the URL of the page you're currently on, unless the user enters something else himself.
I agree with you that the address bar should always display the URL of the page you're currently on, unless the user enters something else himself. I was talking about just the first web page that is loaded in a new tab you open. Everybody has set as a default web page something, you know which web page is this so there is no need to put it there (I mean the www.google.com or whatever you use) and instead of these you could have the advantage to use the blank address to search something else or load a different url without erasing the same thing all the time. Unless you use an aleatory-new-web-page-from-internet or something like that I think this is not risky.
In fact, this behavior is already used in epiphany, when you open the program the address bar is empty ready for a search, I'm saying that this should be in every new tab also, as it was in the previous version of Epiphany.
My mistake Reinout van Schouwen, sorry for my bad English, the idea of the feature requets would be better like this: "New tabs should have an empty address bar when opened"
I agree it's inconsistent that the epiphany address bar is empty upon opening the program and not upon opening a new tab. Maybe we should look at that and decide one way or the other. In the mean time, did you know you can right-click the address entry and choose 'Clear' to empty it?
No, I didn't know but I have just tested and there is another problem with it, when I open a new tab I got the home page in the address bar, I right-click and press clear and by the time I want to write something the home page is loaded and the address bar is full again, so the address got to be clear twice. I think this is another reason the address bar should be empty, a simple solution for a simple problem.
@Briquet, feel free to file a new bug for that, depending on this one. The easiest workaround for the case you describe is simply to first clear the address bar, type the URL and then press Ctrl+Enter or Ctrl+click Go. The URL will be loaded in a new tab.
The fact that the address bar is empty at startup was already filed as bug 331641.
why a new tab open the home page at all?? if i want to see my homepage i will click his button.. this thing just make the tabs open slower beacuse they need to load the website (it feels like IE7 in slowness) and it's make the url bar not empty... epiphany is the only browser i know that do that, so why this is needed at all?
@lior: see bug 312883
Still valid.
And still. Quite annoying bug. Any progress on it?
Kristian Klette I found an extension that solves the problem, hope it helps you: http://www.ctaf.free.fr/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=epiphany This extension should be an epiphany's default behavior.
Benzo: I think the extension won't work with Epiphany 2.22.
There is a new version of the extension from comment #13 for epiphany 2.22 which works for me. Empty new tabs :-)
Closing as WONTFIX, this is material for an extension (and great that one already exists).