184673 - preference for home page on first opened window only

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201177

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Olegario Craig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203

Now that one can define the "start page" as a tabbed group of bookmarks (which
BTW absolutely *rocks*) I'd like to see an option to set the home page only for
the first window -- i.e. in Edit->Preferences->Navigator, under "When Navigator
starts up, display:", I envision this:
( ) Blank page
(*) Home page                ( ) only on first open window
( ) Last page visited

This toggle, if checked, would prevent the home page setting from being used
(i.e. revert to a blank page for a new moz window) if a new window is created
from an instance of mozilla that already has an open window. 

Reasoning: with one home page it's not really a hindrance, but if you've got a
tabbed group of seven or eight sites defined as your start page, then there's
significant overhead involved in creating a new window. I use windows and tabs
both to help organize my workflow, and will often open a new moz window on a
different workspace without wanting to wait for the startup pages. Yes, I could
use "blank page", but my inner pedant is annoyed by the extra tab when I *do*
want the startup pages (see bug #184660)...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

Looks like bug 119887.  

Does the workaround provided there satisfy your request?

Comment 2

[Olegario Craig]

not really; <ctrl-T> would still bring up a new window with start page(s)
loading, as would clicking a mozilla taskbar/desktop icon. Yes, I can define a
different taskbar icon for "start mozilla with the argument 'about:blank'" but
that's not the point -- if that's the solution, why bother having a start page
at all? Anyway, that road leads to more desktop or taskbar clutter, which is...
unsavory. 

It really seems to me that the "start" part of "start page" should connote the
"start of mozilla" rather than "the start of this mozilla window." It feels...
slightly wrong to me from a UI perspective. However, I realize it's a relatively
trivial issue, which is why I filed it as RFE. 

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

If you change the Mozilla shortcut to load the page(s) you want at startup
("./mozilla http://www.mozilla.org"), but in the preferences, set the home page
to be blank, then onstartup, it will open mozilla.org, and opening a new window
or tab will open about:blank, and you would only need one desktop icon.

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding your request...

Comment 4

[Olegario Craig]

That would work for a single home page, presuming that I always start mozilla
the same way. But I don't, and moreover this discussion was brought to you by
the letters "T", "A", and "B", and the number "many". :-) Is it possible to
specify multiple URLs on the command line, and have mozilla open them in tabs? I
just tried, and couldn't get it to do so...

Comment 5

[Chris Lyon]

In Linux, you can create an alias to Mozilla that opens the home page, that way
it doesn't matter how you start Mozilla.  On Windows, you would have to change
all three default shortcuts.

You're right about the tabs tho.  The ability to open tabs from the command line
is bug 148416, so at the moment, no, it's not possible.  


Confirming RFE because there is currently no workaround.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 195293 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Felix Miata]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201177 ***