Bug#472386: epiphany-browser: Location box no longer empty when home page loaded in new tab
Moray Allan
moray at sermisy.org
Mon Mar 24 00:58:52 UTC 2008
Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 2.20.3-1
Severity: normal
Previously when I created a new tab, the location/URL entry box was
left
blank. I found this very useful, and would frequently select a URL
elsewhere, create a new tab in the Epiphany window where I wanted to
view it, then middle-click and press enter to load it.
Epiphany now instead fills in the URL of my home page
(http://www.google.com/). Since I'm used to the old behaviour, I
frequently end up looking at pages like
http://www.google.com/http://www.example.com, then having to fiddle
about with the mouse/keyboard to get where I want.
While middle-click pasting may be a minority interest among Epiphany
users, the old behaviour also made it easier for less advanced users to
click in the entry box and type in a URL manually. (While using
control-L pre-selects the current contents so that starting typing will
overwrite them, simply clicking in the box doesn't do that, and
shouldn't do unless that behaviour is made general in GNOME.) It does
seem worth 'special-casing' a new tab this way, as I can't see I'm
unique in frequently wanting to visit a URL other than the home page in
a new tab. (The home page URL is rather uninformative, compared to
later pages which have been actively navigated to -- if someone was
genuinely confused as to what their home page's URL is, they could still
find it in the preferences).
I notice that the very first Epiphany window I open preserves the old
behaviour.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii epiphany-gecko 2.20.3-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser
- Geck
epiphany-browser recommends no packages.
Versions of packages epiphany-gecko depends on:
ii dbus 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii epiphany-browser-data 2.20.3-1 Data files for the GNOME
web brows
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.20.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii iso-codes 2.0-1 ISO language, territory,
currency,
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-1 Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.21.90-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces
library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.21.90-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii libenchant1c2a 1.3.0-5 a wrapper library for
various spel
ii libffi4 4.3.0~rc2-1 Foreign Function Interface
library
ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration
library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0~rc2-1 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.20.1-3 GNOME configuration
database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade
files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C
routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.20.3-1 Utility library for
loading .deskt
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented
display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.20.1-1 GNOME Virtual File System
(runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.5-2 The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii libmozjs0d 1.8.1.12-2 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey
JavaScrip
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.0-2 NetScape Portable Runtime
Library
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.10-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.0-1 Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management
library
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1 library for program launch
feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0~rc2-1 The GNU Standard C++
Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension
client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.22-1 XSLT processing library -
runtime
ii libxul0d 1.8.1.12-2 Gecko engine library
ii python2.4 2.4.4-7 An interactive high-level
object-o
ii xulrunner-gnome-suppor 1.8.1.12-2 Support for Gnome in
xulrunner app
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library -
runtime
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