Closed Bug 197810 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

New tab opened with Ctrl-T loads home page automatically

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Sun
SunOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197610

People

(Reporter: hana.skoumalova, Assigned: jag+mozilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030316

I am using Modern Theme, in my preferences I chose "When Navigator starts up,
display Home Page" and I have a Home Page Group. When I want to open a new blank
tab and press Ctrl-T I always get the first of of the Home pages loaded.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Preferences so that Home page(s) is/are loaded after start.
2. Start Navigator.
3. Press Ctrl-t

Actual Results:  
A new tab opens and the first Home page is loaded.

Expected Results:  
Open a blank tab

Most often I open a new tab with Ctrl-t when I want to copy and paste an URL
from another window/text. When the new tab automatically loads a home page I
have to edit the URL bar and I can't just paste the URL.
Sorry, but this is actually deliberate. Someone decided that "When Navigator
starts up" shall from now on be interpreted as "Whenever you open a new tab or
window". 

Resolving as duplicate of WONTFIX bug 197610.

I suggest you simply avoid the whole preference, and set it to load a blank page
on startup instead. Then click the "Home" page button when you want to go to
your homepage instead. That one click is way quicker than the continous loading
of perhaps thousands of the same homepage during one session.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197610 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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