Re: Browser re-org

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:54 -0500, marduk wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:52 -0300, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > (I came across someone yesterday who always types Ctrl+T, not Ctrl+L, 
> > before going to a new page -- even if they don't want to keep the 
> > existing page around any more, the habit is too strong. They didn't 
> > know about Ctrl+Enter.)
> 
> Ok I give up.  What is Ctrl-Enter supposed to do.  I tried in in my
> browser and it doesn't seem to do anything.
> ...

Oops, I forgot this wasn't implemented in Epiphany. :-x

In the Mozilla suite, Safari, MSIE/Mac, and (to some extent) Firefox,
but not Epiphany, modifier keys do the same thing for the Go button, for
Enter while in the address field, for clicking on links, for clicking on
bookmarks (not shown in the following table because it's identical to
clicking on links), and for pressing Enter while a link is focused.

               Go button    Enter in       click link    Enter on
                            address field                focused link
---------------------------------------------------------------------
   Unmodified  open URL     open URL       open link     open link

Command/Ctrl+  open URL in  open URL in    open link in  open link in
               new window   new window     new window    new window

  Shift+Ctrl+  open URL in  open URL in    open link in  open link in
               new window   new window     new window    new window
               behind the   behind the     behind the    behind the
               current one  current one    current one   current one

  Option/Alt+  download     download       download      download
               URL          URL            linked item   linked item

In Firefox this consistency is disrupted because the Command+ and Shift
+Command+ commands are reversed by default, *only for links* and not for
bookmarks, and apply to tabs, rather than windows; and Option+ in the
address field opens a new tab instead of downloading the URL. (I think
Ctrl+Enter in the address field may add "www." and ".com" in Firefox for
Windows, but I don't have Windows here to check.) Safari does the same
thing with Command+ and Shift+Command+ as Firefox if tabs are turned on,
unless the "Select new tabs as they are created" option is turned on.

-- 
Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/