User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 For a new install of Mozilla, the default Tabbed Browsing preferences are not adequate to take advantage of the Mozilla tabbed browsing system. This report's purpose to suggest the enabling of three preferences by default: 1. Load links in background (Tab Display) 2. Middle-click, Control+click or Control+Enter on links in a Web page (Open tabs instead of windows for) 3. Control+Enter in the Location bar (Open tabs instead of windows for) For defaulting of "Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open" (Tab Display) preference see Bug 206103 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Edit > Preferences... > Navigator > Tabbed Browsing Actual Results: Listed preferences are unchecked.

The choice of the defaults somewhat reflects the fact that not everyone likes tabs very much... Changing the behavior of long-established shortcuts to suddenly open tabs instead of windows would be somewhat disorienting and not particularly appreciated in many cases.

Maybe this should be set by an install-time option "Use tabbed-browsing by default"... By the way, I think that, under "Edit - Preferences - Navigator - Tabbed Browsing - Open tabs instead of windows for: ", there should an option "Forever" :), so I didn't have to ctrl+click everytime (just like Opera's behavior). This way, ctrl+click would be a shortcut for opening new windows.

For 1.5, we are going to turn on "load links in the background", but not the prefs which redefine keys. That discussion needs to happen for 1.6. Gerv

This fixes this bug and bug 206103 (i.e. it turns on the tab bar by default, and the load links in the background pref.) Gerv

Comment on attachment 131410 [details] [diff] [review] Patch v.1 jag: assuming you agree with this, could you review it, or otherwise comment? (2 lines.) Thanks, Gerv

Taking. Gerv

*** Bug 206103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Duped bug 206103 to this one (rather than marking a dependency) since a patch has actually been submitted over here. > so I didn't have to ctrl+click everytime How, then, do you click on a link and get it to open in the *same* window? > This way, ctrl+click would be a shortcut for opening new windows. Or had that been a type with you meaning to say ctrl-click to open in the same window? (Currently I don't know of a keyboard shortcut that opens a link in a new window.) In any case, I personally think that a regular click should always do what it does now. Having this particular behaviour change would, I think, be far too confusing for the regular user.

What is the status here? What needs to be done? Why was the review flag removed?

It is not good idea to open tab just to show users that the tab function exists. This should be made other way. Probably the best way is to make new starting home page which will show some tutorials (with tile like learn new generation features), and it should contain other things too - explaning extensions and themes, how to get involved in community or developing, etc. Also buy t-shirt and donate should be on this screen. Funny, but how users know to middle-click links if tabbar is opened by default and not when it is closed? They must take additional steps to learn. So it is better to make them learn all in one step. Finally, many users appriciate more free screen area (I do), and some of them don't have more than one page opened in many cases.

Perhapt 2 default start pages (2 tabs) would solve this, that way you can keep hidding the tab bar when only one tab is open, and new users will find out about tabs the frist time they start the browser.

This bug is long dead. Gerv