On 10/10/05, Reinout van Schouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Kristoffer Lundén wrote: > > > whatever modifier it is on the keyboard. But, if you like me *never > > ever* want to open in new window, then a simple setting is much > > better. > > I really don't remember the details, but if I remember correctly, in the > early days of epiphany it was decided against such a setting because it > would prevent some websites from working correctly. >
Well, I'm a Firefox user, but I do like Epiphany and I run it on a regular basis - I hope that it will be my browser of choice in the future, just can't switch before some more things work (waiting for bookmarks patch and adblock, among other things). Anyhow, I do run Fx with this setting and I've yet to see any site break down due to this. Actually, I can't think of a single case where this could happen (and if so, "Open in new Window" context menu would solve that very uncommon case). It may also be that things were different in Epiphany early days, although it isn't that many years ago. > Maybe someone who cares enough will have time to dig through the list > archives and bugzilla... I've tried, but I can't find anything that actually makes a real case against it. Here's one thread I found that seems to deal with at similar issues, but the answers seem to mostly say "there should be a better window manager instead" and "MDI has inherent problems": http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2003-August/msg00208.html There's no real explanation of what those problems really are, and like I said, I have no problems using this mode in Fx. Also, I don't see a window manager solving these problems, at least not in a way that is comfortable to me. It would also require me to switch to some other manager, and I'm actually pretty comfortable with the Gnome default one. Besides, I'm trying hard to be a *user* nowadays and should not have to tweak my system in such ways for such a feature. =) I think that part of the problem might be that there is a school of thought that says that only related groups of pages should be in tabs and then extrapolates that to only mean pages from the same site or something like that. However, that maps pretty badly to how users actually work: my related pages can come from many different actual sites, and still deserve to be grouped together. Many sites and forums map all external links to new windows, but that is mainly to keep their own site open, not because they are unrelated. It's old IE cruft, more or less. IMO Fx understands this and caters for it - users have driven the development in this direction, not the other way around, as this feature as fully implemented is relatively new. Like it or not, this is one of the things that make Fx an effective tool. -- Kristoffer Lundén ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gamemaker.nu/ ☎ 0704 48 98 77
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