On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 07:28 -0400, Michael V. De Palatis wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:36:36AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > I just don't get why you'd want to open a blank tab. What's the use of > > that? I know Firefox does that, but I always thought that was kind of > > silly. > > Uh, because one wants to go to some page and doesn't want to waste > time by having it load some other page first?
Well my point was that I never have need to open a blank tab first in order "to go to some page," nor to I ever have to waste time by loading some other page first. It seems an unnecessary waste of time to me, to open a blank tab in order to get somewhere else, when there are plenty of methods to get exactly where you want to go (in a new tab) without first opening a blank tab. I'm not trying to imply that I'm doing it right and others are doing it wrong. I'm just trying to understand what the usefulness of Ctrl+T opening a blank tab is. As I said, I use Ctrl+T when I explicitly want to go to my homepage. If the behavior of Ctrl+T were changed, I would have to keep my homepage as a separate bookmark and get there that way. Not a huge deal by any means, but I would have to get used to it and I would have no more use for Ctrl+T, since I can't imagine wanting to stare at a blank tab. The fact that some other browsers do this has always seemed to me like a workaround for the problem that they aren't terribly well integrated into a desktop environment. Epiphany is well integrated. The only other browser I have any past experience with that comes close to matching Epiphany's desktop integration is Camino on OS X. (Unlike others, I do find the concept of a homepage useful, though I didn't used to. But with the advent of so-called "web 2.0"-style homepages like iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc., I find it useful to put exactly what content I want all in one place and have that accessible through a simple keystroke combo.) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
