GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324201
Opening a new tab should put focus in the address-bar
Last modified: 2006-01-22 14:34:27 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu/Dapper I always find the fact that I have to manually switch to the address bar to type in my destination after pressing ctrl+t to open a new, empty tab quite annoying. Giving focus to the address bar is the default behaviour for firefox, which I use on all windows and mac computers I come over, and I find it improves my workflow somewhat. Would it be possible to have this useful (atleast to me) functionality in for G2.14? Sorry for not providing any patch - my coding skills are rather limited at this point ;)
Bah, actually, after some testing, I see this is already in place. The problem is rather having an option to not open the default homepage in new tabs, but allow them to be blank, while still having a default homepage set.
This is very important imho. I was talking to guys on IRC that basically told me that "the concept of homepage is obsolete" and that I should use a special gnome launcher to actually use a homepage while being able to open tabs and focusing the location bar. My point being: absolutely no newbie could guess how to do this even if he was told to do it. And I had to write that down to remember it myself. It implies some hackiness with three preferences dialog, although we should not have to bother with this at all since the goal here is having the user fuss the least possible with settings before feeling comfortable. Here is the hacky way if you can read some French: http://kiddo.nanokron.info/blog/index.php?2005/10/17/87-solutions-pour-epiphany
Reporter, are you certain this happens with a new **empty** tab in version 1.9.x? Because that should have been fixed long ago. Comment #2 is about the fact that the focus goes to the webpage when a homepage has been set and you open a new tab, but that is by design.
Rightly so, but it I still contest this design decision. Opening a new tab should not load the home page. What is the home page button for, otherwise? Opening a new tab should create a blank page. Currently, the only way to make it work is not having any homepage at all. That's the problem. This is in epiphany 1.9.4
I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of bug 312883. Please add any further comments there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312883 ***