GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 307969
Open in new tab by default in the bookmark window
Last modified: 2016-09-28 16:17:24 UTC
In the bookmark window, when you double-click on a bookmark to open it, it opens a new Epiphany window. I think this bookmark window has two interests, the first is that looking for a bookmark is easier, the second is that you can massively open bookmarks. But this second one is not so valuable if it opens a new window each time, or needs to be told each time that a new tab should be created. So I think that it should by default open the bookmark in a new tab. Other information:
You can already open a group of bookmarks in tabs by selecting them and selecting 'Open in new tabs' from the context menu or the File menu. Opening bookmarks in a new tab/tabs has a second disadvantage, because it introduces an inconsistency when the bookmark window is open and no browser window is open. A new window will have to be opened then. In the case where multiple browser windows are open, you introduce the question of which window to choose to open the new tabs in. If this happens in a window that already has multiple tabs, chances are they will be opened in the background, invisible to the user.
In my humble opinion, it's not inconsitent to open a new window when no window is opened, after all, it's what you want to do, even if after on the next bookmak opened, it's a new tab that appear. And the question of which window to open the tabs in is a question that already exists with the method you told me (using the "open in new tab" entry of the menu) since the new tabs are opend in the window with which you opened the bookmark window. I admit that in each case it's a user action (using the "open in new tab" entry of the menu) that brings to these "issues", but i've opened that bug because, as a user, i always use open in new tab, and when i forget to right click and it opens a new window, I don't like it.
You may not like it, but please realise that the majority of "normal" users never uses tabs! For them, changing the default behaviour like you suggest would be a step backward. There might be room for an extension that does this, though.
You're right, an extension may do it. I'll try to look into it.
Just thought I point out that this behaviour seems to be inconsistent with the setting in "preferred applications" where I have epiphany and open in new tab set. Would the correct behaviour be to use what is set by that preference?
Open from the bookmarks editor doesn't go out-of-process via the default handler...
Well, opening something through right clicking and then choosing from file-menu is not really fast, and bookmarks should be fast, should they not? I do not want you to include this behaviour as default (althouth it seems to me it is inconsistent with the rest of gnome that uses tabs extensively whenever it is possible, i.e. gnome-terminal or gedit). Could this be an optional behaviour? Or could be some modification key (i.e. alt+click) made so that when you click a bookmark with that key pressed, it oepn in a new tab? I would really appreciate this, I otherwise like epiphany much more than firefox (although I use opera mostly).
gnome-terminal and gedit aren't document-centric applications like Epiphany is. Anyhow, the suggestion in comment #5 seems sensible to me. Also based on comment #7 I believe that double clicking a bookmark while holding Ctrl should open in a new tab (control-clicking a bookmark from the menu opens in a new tab too).
*** Bug 475783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 300724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to Reinout van Schouwen from comment #3) > You may not like it, but please realise that the majority of "normal" users > never uses tabs! Thing change... :P
Yup Anyway, Ctrl+click on a bookmark in the new popover to get a new tab, otherwise it opens in the current tab.