GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 452228
New Tabs should be blank instead of loading home page
Last modified: 2007-06-29 13:30:39 UTC
Currently, new tabs are populated with the home page. Not only does that cause possibly pointless page loads, but it also causes the focus problems described in bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105153 This seems like an easy and obvious fix to what is clearly a popular problem (note how many duplicates have been filed). The only argument I have heard against it is that folks use the "Home Page" feature to bring up a search engine. There are two workarounds (use the built-in url-bar search feature, or press the "Home" button after creating a new tab), so I do not find that argument compelling. An extension should not be required to "fix" this. Apologies if this is a dupe. It is really hard to search for "new tab" when both have fewer than 4 letters. I tried every search I could think of. This is not the same as 429717, because that one requests the home page to be loaded but the URL bar to remain empty. Other information: A few examples of web articles complaining about these features: http://blog.zerodogg.org/?p=51 http://www.mail-archive.com/epiphany-list@gnome.org/msg02102.html http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/Suggestions#head-090ecb8122acc654a615bddee323507ae4bd1914 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=220125&page=2 http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/03/15/100-why-you-should-try-epiphany-as-your-default-browser-with-gnome-214
Indeed, this is a duplicate. As you can see, the original report contains an unfinished patch for a gconf preference. Feel free to clean it up and submit it for review. Thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312883 ***