On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Evan Stade <est...@chromium.org> wrote:
> we have had a lot of bug reports asking for NEW_WINDOW, but none for these
> two dispositions. What use cases do you envisage?
>
Wanting to open pages in either of these ways? Firefox used to have options
to control this and I was sad when they removed them. CURRENT_TAB is useful
for people who like only using one tab (there are some) and for using Chrome
as an external viewer for HTML-based content. NEW_BACKGROUND_TAB is useful
for shoveling stuff in without disturbing whatever the user is doing.
To put it a different way, the cost of supporting these now is basically
indistinguishable from the cost of just adding --new-window. We're never
going to remove them, so there won't be any maintenance burden. But if we
implement --new-window and decide we need to support one of these, we have
to add a new option. Same if we ever add any other useful disposition and
want to support it. So this ensures we won't ever need to add more options.
PK
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