Yup.... Chrome already supports both ways to open tabs (Ctrl+Click and Ctrl+Shift+Click), but the "global choice configurable option" is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY! (I know Chrome and Google try to minimize global choices, but in general, Google takes simplification too far and often it becomes oversimplification.) This is one global choice that is required.
This is exactly to support users' reflexive action: some like Ctrl +Click to open background / Ctrl+Shift+Click to open foreground, and some like the opposite. Making a global choice configurable option is definitely needed to support a user's reflexive preference. This is already in http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=774 Then you can additionally add context menu foreground and background tabs if you wish. On Dec 7, 3:15 pm, Peter Kasting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Ojan Vafai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Similarly , we could add a standard keyboard shortcut for open in a new > > foreground tab, e.g. shift+click opens in a new foreground tab. > > We already support one. Shift-control click (or shift-middle click) open a > link in a new foreground tab. This is the standard shortcut on other > browsers as well. The fact that this is far less well-known than > control-click (which is also undiscoverable) suggests to me this is a far > less common need. > > Note that this doesn't work correctly in gmail, where middle- and > shift-middle clicks seem to always open background tabs, and control- and > shift-control clicks seem to always open foreground tabs (WTF?). > > I do not think we should add this as a context menu option. I think the > negative effect is moderate and the benefits for various user cohorts are > minimal. > > PK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
