Bug#414939: epiphany-browser: contents of location bar in new tabs

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 22:54 +0100, Erich Schubert wrote:
> The previous version (2.14 I think; unstable) version of epiphany had a
> nice property I'm missing now: when I created a new tab, it kept the
> location field empty. I know the URL of my 'home' page quite well
> anyway.
> So if I wanted to e.g. Google for some term, I could create a new tab,
> paste my clipboard into the location bar and pick the appropriate
> smartbookmark from the dropdown.
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work with 2.18 anymore: when I create a new
> tab, the location bar will show http://www.google.com/, and I can't just
> paste my pastebuffer there right away. I liked the old behaviour better.

Hi,

Looks like there are some different views on this matter upstream....

For example, bug 331641 is about exactly the opposite, making sure the
location field always match the displayed page. 

Bug 313012 (resolved now, maybe you can ask for reopen) is what you ask
for, new tabs should have a blank location field. 

Epiphany developers, OTOH, suggests a way to clear the location field
without affecting the clipboard in bug 118395.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331641
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313012
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118395

I guess you can take your pick and mark the bug as forwarded to the one
best matching your needs :-)

(And as a work around, you can of course simply set the home page to
blank)

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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