[cross-post; originally posted at <http://groups.google.com/group/
chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/577c985ee99eed1c>; but please
continue with the discussion here]
Hi *,
the status quo for opening new tabs in Chrome is:
left-clicking something most often opens a page in the CURRENT tab
- exception: "open image in new tab" opens in NEW BACKGROUND tab
- exception: search for xyz in google" opens in NEW tab
middle-clicking something most often opens a NEW BACKGROUND tab
- exception: forms are always submitted to CURRENT tab
- exception: the back button, context menu entries
-> but: hyperlinks on the history and new-tab pages respect
middle clicking again
This is all very inconsistent and can be perplexing for unexperienced
users, who would not understand why, for example, middle-clicking
sometimes does the expected, and sometimes it does not.
In addition to that, a lot of things just cannot be done the way it is
working right now:
- starting a google search for selected text in background,
- submitting a form to a background tab, which is very useful if you
have to submit the form multiple times with slightly modified content
etc.
I think the Opera browser handles this much better than Chrome does.
They've got three simple rules:
1. Clicking something / pressing the enter key opens something in the
current tab.
2. Holding shift while doing so opens the thing in a new tab 3.
Holding ctrl and shift opens the new tab in background.
This applies to truly everything: You can use it when clicking
hyperlinks, submitting forms, opening bookmarks and even when clicking
context menu entries like the "search for selected text in google"
thing which chrome has as well.
Handling it this way would open up a lot of cool possibilities for
experienced users, and is incredibly easy to understand at the same
(even my mother, who is currently using Opera, understood this concept
in seconds and is now happily using it ;-) ).
So, I hereby propose to change the behaviour of chrome to match the
behaviour of Opera in this case.
I would be willing to help with the implementation, and even do it all
on my own if I must.
What do you think?
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