Bug#402177: epiphany-browser: Doesn't honour the browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab option

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:10:21PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> (08/12/2006):
> > Why do you look at *Mozilla* documentation for *epiphany* ?
> 
> Because that option is present in epiphany's about:config, and I didn't
> find any documentation neither in the Help menu, nor on the website. Any
> link that I could have missed is welcome.
> 
> I also thought that epiphany's based on gecko, so one could hope that
> Mozilla documentation applies. Am I wrong?

It uses gecko only for the html layout rendering part. Not for the UI
part. Which means all UI related config available in about:config are
likely to do nothing.

> And if that option isn't effective, removing it from about:config could
> be an idea, right?

A lot of options in about:config aren't effective, even on fully XUL
browsers. It's a big mess containing stuff that shouldn't be there,
stuff for the layout engine, stuff for the xul engine, stuff for the
network subsystem, stuff for (...), and stuff that is there for a set of
applications (like all of mozilla programs). It's almost impossible to
filter out stuff that is not needed by epiphany.

> Again, any pointer welcome.

Use the -n argument to epiphany

Mike